Category Archives: Honour Roll – Australian Stories

Stories involving Australians who have served during wartime.

Soc Kienzle And The Kokoda Flag

Posted on 28 November, 2009 by gary

Herbert Thomson KIENZLE was born on the 19th of May, 1905 at Levuka in the Fijian Islands.  With the service number of PX177, the World War Two Nominal Roll records his enlistment date into the Australian Army as being the … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Brown Over Green – The Kind That Did Not Melt in Battle

Posted on 25 November, 2009 by gary

The Jindabyne hills, with their distant snow fringed heights – is the last place that you would expect to find a monument commemorating a tropical battlefield. Even in the November heat of an Australian summer, there is still some hint … Continue reading →

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Bede Tongs M.M. & Owen Baskett – 3rd Militia Battalion – Kokoda

Posted on 4 October, 2009 by gary

Stories of  “mateship” – during times of war; are universal.  It does not matter from which corner of the globe they came from.  Whether on the battlefields of Europe, Russia and North Africa, or in the steaming jungles of the … Continue reading →

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From Light Horse to P.O.W of Nippon – the story of Walter BOOTH

Posted on 7 September, 2009 by gary

You could not find a bigger contrast in topography- experienced by one man during two World Wars.    From riding in the heat and dust of  ‘The Desert Column’ with the Australian Light Horse – to the monsoonal downpours experienced by … Continue reading →

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Snowy River Men – Slideshow

Posted on 20 August, 2009 by gary

Have you ever heard of the “SNOWY RIVER MEN” Recruitment march? This was one of many recruitment drives which took place around Australia circa 1916 to boost the number of enlistments into the AIF during World War One. The march … Continue reading →

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