2010-2011 recipients

The Australian Army History Unit congratulates recipients of grants for the 2010-2011 period.

Phillip Bradley

The Capture of Lae: September 1943


Lachlan Coleman

Champions of the Battlefield? The Australian Corps on the Western Front, 1918

Craig Deayton

Magnum Opus: The Australian Experience in the Battle of Messines

Andrew Kilsby

The Rifle Club Movement and Australian Defence 1860-1920

Sven Kuusk

Fang Farriers - Australian Army Dental Corps

Graham McKenzie-Smith

The Unit Guide, the Australian Army 1939-1945. Part Four

Steven Paget

"Trustworthy Mateship and Reliable Partnership"? American, Australian and British Interoperability Since the Malayan Emergency

Aaron Pegram

Giving the game away: Australian prisoners, German intelligence, and the war on the Western Front, 1916-1918

Craig Stockings & Eleanor Hancock

A Promise Kept and a Country Lost: A critical and multi-national investigation of the Greek Campaign, 1941

Meleah Ward

The Battles for Mouquet Farm, August - September 1916

Graham Willett & Yorick Smaal

The Australians, the Americans and the 'homosexual problem' in New Guinea, 1943-1944

Linda Young

Memory, Heritage and Collections: the significance of Australian Army museums


2009-2010 recipients

The Australian Army History Unit congratulates recipients of grants for the 2009-2010 period.

Michelle Bomford

Yelling Like Bushrangers: the Australian Capture of Mont St Quentin and Peronne 1918

Phillip Bradley

The Capture of Lae: September 1943

Neville Browning

Leane's Battalion: A History of the 48th Battalion AIF

Justin Chadwick

Sword and Baton: A century of Senior Command: Volume 1 Federation to 1939

Tim Cook

From the Snowy to the Somme: A History of the 55th Battalion

Bronwyn Hughes

Light Everlasting: Commemorative Stained Glass of the First and Second World Wars

Richard Irvine

The History of the Volunteer Defence Corps 1940-1945

Wayne Matthews

History of the 19th Infantry Battalion, AIF 1915-1918

John Maynard

The Black Battlefield – The WWI Experience of NSW Aborigines Home and Abroad

Kate McCulloch

Collection Policies by Army in relation to the Vietnam War: Relationship between the Army and the Australian War Memorial

Barry Reed

Endurance, Courage & Care: The 1942 Kokoda Campaign of Captain Alan Watson, Dental Surgeon

Noah Riseman

Defending Australia, Defending Indigenous Rights: Australian Indigenous Soldiers Since World War 2

Peter Stanley

Bad Characters: AIF Discipline in the Great War

Gerard Windsor

Bunker Action of Charlie Coy 7RAR, 5-7 Feb ‘68

Brad Duncan &
Bob Marmion

The Port Phillip Defences, 1854-1945


2008-2009 recipients

Phillip Bradley

The Salamaua Campaign: March-September 1943

David Coombes

Bullecourt: Two Battles and the AIF

Rhys Crawley

Re-evaluating the August Offensive, Gallipoli, 1915

Michelle Cunningham

Sandakan - A Re-evaluation

Victoria D'Alton

Behind the Valour: A Technical, Administrative and Bureaucratic Analysis of the AIF and the Victoria Cross on the Western Front, 1916-1918

Peter Dean

The Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman, 1894-1981

David Evans

Portuguese Timor and Australian Diplomacy: The War Between 1937 and 1943

Ian Howie-Willis

Biography of Major General Sir Samuel R Burston, 1888-1960

Graham McKenzie-Smith

The Australian Army 1939-45 - A Guide to its Units. Parts Two and Three.

Kerry Neale

"Without the Faces of Men": The Experiences of Facially Disfigured Great War Veterans of Britain and its Dominions

Paul Skrebels

The Blue and the Brown: A Digital Edition of the 27th Bn AIF Unit History for 21st Century Readers

Craig Tibbitts &
Nick Fletcher

The Half-Hundredweights: 56th Battalion, AIF 1916-1919


2007-2008 recipients

Phillip Bradley

The Salamaua Campaign: March-September 1943

Danny Dawson

Insufficient Support - The Australian Army's Treatment of WWI Amputees

Julie-Ann Ellis

Deaf to the Call: Why and Where Early Recruitment Failed in the First World War

Mark Foxe

The Big Raid - The Story of the 10th Composite Raiding Battalion

Jeffrey Hatwell

The 4th Australian Division in the Great War

Douglas Hunter

The Albury Battery: Artillery in Albury 1903-1940

James Hurst

The Gallipoli Landing - a Battalion Perspective and Re-Analysis

Mark Johnston

The Proud 6th: An Illustrated History of the 6th Australian Division, 1939-1945

Jenny Mills

A Goldfield's Doctor Goes to War - Major General George Walter Barber

Peter Monteath

Australian POWs in German Captivity 1941-1945

Linda Shields

Dame Maud McCarthy and her Influence on Australian Military Nursing

Michael Sturma

Australian Commandos on US Submarines

Craig Stockings

Heirs to Anzac: Re-evaluating the Battle of Bardia January 1941


Please find below a document and link to reviews of the above book:

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Review by John Donovan

2006-2007 recipients

Dr Anne Blair

The Australian Army Between the World Wars

Mr Adrian Threlfall

Transforming an Army: The Evolution of Australian Jungle Warfare Doctrine

Mr Phillip Bradley

The Wau Campaign: March 1942-February 1943

Mr Nathan Wise

Working Class Attitudes Towards Work and Leisure

Ms Elizabeth Raine

The 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment

Dr Peter Stanley

Mont St Quentin

Mr Graham McKenzie-Smith

An Encyclopaedia of Australia in WW2

Mr Wesley Olsen

History of 2/11th Battalion

Dr Anoma Pieris

Changi: The Politics of POW Heritage Sites

Dr James Wood

Chiefs of the Australian Army:
Higher Command of the Australian Military Forces 1914-1918

Ms Elizabeth Barber

Logistics of the East Timor Campaign

Mr Peter Williams

Mountain Warfare in the Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea 1942

Mr Christopher Wray

The Anvil: Battle of Pozieres in Australian Memory

A/Prof Martin Hadlow

G'day Vung Tau: Australian Forces Radio Vietnam


2005-2006 recipients

Prof Allison Gilmore

Linguists as Intelligence Agents: The Allied Translator and Interpreter Section
in the Pacific War and Occupation of Japan

Mr Peter Beale

An Evaluation of the Use of Australian Armoured Forces in WW2

Dr Catherine Blackmore

The Great War and Modern Medicine

Mr Phillip Cobbin

The Army Accountancy Advisory Panel, 1942-45

Mr Jean Bou

History of Australian Light Horse

Dr Errol Vieth &
Ms Kathryn Ames

Shoalwater Bay: Through the Eyes of Major Jack Crigan

COL FP Scott

Command of 3RAR in Vietnam in 1971

Mr Phillip Bradley

The Wau Campaign, March 1942-February 1943

Dr Daniel Marston

Riding the Tiger: 5RAR in Vietnam

Dr Ross McMullin

Geoff McCrae and Australia's Lost Generation

Dr Ian Howie-Willis

Biography of MAJGEN Rupert Downes (1885-1945)

Dr Johannes Pols

Mental Breakdown, Medicine and Recovery in the Australian Army in WW2

Mr Craig Deayton

Ill-starred: The Story of the 47th Bn


2004-2005 recipients

Mr Steven Bullard

The Real Enemy: Japanese & Australian Forces
in New Guinea 1942-1943

LTCOL Bruce Cameron

Canister! On! Fire! Australian Tank Operations in Vietnam

Mr David Hay

National Service and the Australian Army

Dr Robert Likeman

From Law to War: The Life of BRIG GEN Lachlan Wilson of the Light Horse

CAPT Craig Stockings

Australian Army Cadet Movement, 1866-2004

Dr Ross McMullin

Geoff McCrae and Australia's Lost Generation

Mr Craig Deayton

History of 47th Battalion, 1916-18

Mr Jim Faggotter

Australia: Don't Forget Us

Mr Robin Corfield

The 'Lost Battalions'

Mr Christopher Wray

The Anvil: The Battle of Pozieres in Australian Memory

Mr Peter Phillips

Clothing and Equipment of the AIF, 1914-18

Mr Harvey Broadbent

Turks and ANZACS

Mr Ross St Clair

54th Australian Infantry Battalion

Dr Frances Miley

Financing Army: a history of money in the Australian Army


2003-2004 recipients

Mr Peter Dean

The Draughtsman of Victory: LTGEN Sir Frank Berryman 1894-1981

Mr John Moreman

History of the Australian Women's Army Service

Mr Alan Powell

Conflict and Cooperation: Australian Army and the Allied Works Unit, NT

Mr Greg Lockhart

The Minefield: Vietnam

Mark Johnston

Silent Seventh: An Illustrated History of 7th Division, 1940-46

Ms Elizabeth Harford

Clinical Nursing in Casualty Clearing Stations, WWI

Mr Peter Stanley

Quinn's Post

Mr Peter Donovan

History of Field Bakeries, WWI

Ms Maria Hill

Australia, Greece and WWII

Mr Dale Blair

Hindenburg Line: 29/30 September 1918

Mr Bob Reece

A.A. Conlon, the BBCAU and British Borneo, 1944-46

Mr Anthony Buckingham

For the Troops and with the Troops: History of the RACMP, 1945-2000


2002-2003 recipients

Mr Harvey Broadbent

Turks and Anzacs: Gallipoli Campaign Documents

LTCOL John Blaxland

Imperial Siblings

Dr Jeff Kildea

Called to Arms: Australian Soldiers and the Easter Rising

Mr Brad Manera

Retimo Force: Australians in the Battle for Crete, 1941

SGT Blair Tidey

Analysis of 1 ATF Intelligence Operations in Vietnam

CPL Cameron Simpson

Kitchener's Fighting Scouts in the South African War

Dr June Factor

Friendly and Enemy Aliens

Dr Michael Tyquin

History of the RAAMC

LTCOL Robert Likeman

History of 9th Field Ambulance

Associate Professor
Fran deGroen

Australian POWs in Korea 1942-45

Dr Niall Barr

Alamein: Three Battles and the British Army


2001-2002 recipients

Mr Paul Anderson

History of the 1st Armoured Regiment (South Vietnam) 1969-71

Mr Dale Blair

To Kill or Not to Kill: Australian attitudes toward the taking of prisoners on
the Western Front 1916-18

Mr Stuart Braga

Biography of Major General A.S. (Tubby) Allen

Dr Anita Callaway

Soldier as Spectacle: The Public Face of the Australian Army

Dr John Coe

Drums and Symbols: The South African War & Australia's Military Culture

Mr John Connor

Senator George Pearce as Minister for Defence, 1914-1918

Mr Steve Eather

Pharlap - The Career of MAJGEN Ken Eather, CB, CBE, DSO, ED, MID, DSC

Ms Sarah Fairhead

Indigenous Citizenship and the Defence of Australia

Mr Jim Faggotter

Australia, Don't Forget Us - The Vietnam War Volume 2

Mr George Franki

Harry Murray VC, CMG, DSO & Bar DCM de G

Ms Margaret Hardy

Padres in No Man's Land: Australian Military Chaplains 1914-1918

Mr Ian Northcott

A Life of Duty: the biography of Lieutenant-General Sir John Northcott

Dr David Palmer

Reorganising Australian Intelligence Capabilities:
Brigadier Kenneth Wills, the AIB and MacArthur's staff

Major Russ Parkin

An Ideal Defence: The Impact of Imperial Defence Policy on
the Australian Army 1920-39

Dr John Williams

The 1st AIF 1914-1918: Through German Eyes

Dr James Wood

The Chiefs of the Australian Army - From Hutton (1901) to Sturdee (1950)


2000-2001 recipients

Dr David Coombes

Soldier and Architect: a biography of LTGEN Sir Talbot Hobbs

Dr Frances de Groen

Forgotten: Australian Prisoners of War in Korea 1942-45

Dr Peter Stanley

Alamein: the Australian Story

Dr Jennifer Macleod

Gallipoli Reconsidered

Dr Jim Mitchell

Fragments: a history of the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion

Mr Allan Converse

Morale in the 50th British and 9th Australian Divisions, 1939-45

Mrs Jennifer Lawless &
Mr Sedat Bulgu

ANZAC Prisoners of War in Turkey, WWI

Dr Darryl Dymock

The Role of Army Education in the Australian Army, 1946-2000

CAPT Ron Austin

LTGEN Sir Carl Jess: the Forgotten General

Palmerston Local History Group

A History of the Australian Army presence in and around Palmerston,
Northern Territory

Mr Keith Ayliffe

Tracks of the Dragon: a history of Australian Locating Artillery

Mr Damien Fenton

A Study of SEATO as a Military Alliance


1999-2000 recipients

Mr Paul Anderson

History of 3rd Cavalry Regiment 1966-1972 (Vietnam)

Dr Michelle Cunningham

Australian Prisoners of the Japanese:
A Comparison of Leadership and Survival in POWs

Mr Roger Donnelly

The Scheyville Experience

Dr Louise Edwards

A Centenary of Women in the Australian Army

Dr Frank Glen

Bowler of Gallipoli - Midwife to the ANZAC Legend

Dr John Harrison

Weipa, Mapoon and Aurukun in Wartime

Dr Mark Johnston

Alamein: the Australian Story

Mr Keith Laing

Behind the Bayonet: Men of the 51st Infantry Battalion, 1st AIF

Mr Chris Wray

A Biography of Sir James Whiteside McCay

Ms Jennifer Lawless

ANZAC Prisoners of War, WWI

Dr David Lowe

National Service in the 1950s; Cold War, Citizenship and the Australian Way of Life

Dr Siobhan Nelson

Creating army nurses: recruiting and training of registered nurses 1939-1951

Dr Bruce Scates

In Gallipoli's Shadow: Pilgrimage, Memory, Mourning and the Great War


1998-1999 recipients

Mr W Chamberlain

The Australians in the South African War 1899-1902 - a Map History

Mr P Edgar

Sir William Glasgow: A Brief Biography

Mr C Kennedy

A Summary of Militia Battalions Service 1942-45

Mr Neil Leckie

The History of 22 RVR

Dr T Moreman

Beating the Jungle and the Jap - the Australian and British Armed Forces and the land war in SE Asia and the SW Pacific 1941-45

Dr Bobbie Oliver

Conscientious Objectors to National Service 1950-59

Mr J Oliver

The Puckapunyal National Serviceman

Professor Alan Powell

History of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) 1942-46

Mr Garth Pratten

Australia and the Seige of Tobruk -
a study of morale, defence, group identity and cohesion

Dr G Sheffield

The AIF on the Western Front 1916-18 an operational study

Ms Janet Uhr

The AIF in Singapore, February 1942

Dr Craig Wilcox

Rethinking Australia's Part in the Boer War and the Origins of the Australian Army


1997-1998 recipients

Dr Albert Palazzo

The 3rd Australian Division: Citizen Soldiers in Peace and War

Dr Peter Stanley

Alamein: the Australian Story

Dr Amoury Vane

Surveillance Regiment: 2/1 North Australian Observer Unit 1942-45

Dr Alan Warren

The Military Campaign in Malaya and Singapore 1941-42

LT Narelle Biedermann

A Comparative Analysis of Army Nursing over a Generation:
RAANC in Vietnam and Rwanda

Ms Margaret Hardy

Priest and Soldier Too: Australian Military Chaplaincy 1901-45

Mr Douglas Hunter

The 13th Australian Light Horse Regiment (AIF)

Mr Peter McLaren

A Profile of an Army: the Australian Corps on the Western Front 1916-18

Mr Murray Kirkland

Behind Every Number

Mr Stephen Taubert

Formation Signs and Vehicle Markings of the Australian Army 1903-66

Ms Valerie Lovejoy

A History of the Army Survey Regiment 1942-96

Mrs Judy Thomson

A Biography of Brigadier John Rogers


1996-1997 recipients

Dr Margaret Barter

Australian Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-45

Dr Anne Blair

COL Ted Serong in the Vietnam War

Mr Graham Brammer

The Bob Parker Story

Mr Peter Edgar

To Villers Bretonneaux: 13th Australian Infantry Brigade

Dr Kent Fedorowich

Australian Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-45

Mr Neville Lindsay

History of the Australian Citizen Forces 1788-1998

Dr Peter Londey

A History of Australian Peacekeeping

Mr Brendan O'Keefe

History of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

CAPT Russell Parkin

The Evolution of Australian Close Air Support Doctrine

Prof Alan Powell

History of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit 1942-45


1995-1996 recipients

Mr Adam Cardosi

The Australian Flying Corps & Development of Military Aviation in Australia

Mr Ambrose Crowe

The Vietnam Veterans' Association: Self Help and Political Action

Dr June Factor

Friendly Aliens: 6th Employment Comp, 1942-45

Dr Jeffrey Grey

Official but not History: Official Histories of World War Two

BRIG Phillip Greville

The Royal Australian Engineers: Paving the Way

Mr R. Lindstrom

Shell Shock & Australian Soldiers of the Great War

Prof Gunther Rothenberg

Ethnicity in the First AIF: the Yugo-Slav Battalion & Italian Reservists

Dr A. Ryan

The Social & Military Role Played by the Melbourne University Regiment

Dr Peter Stanley

Tarakan 1945: an Australian Tragedy


1994-1995 recipients

Dr J. Ainsworth

Captain Ainsworth and the Counter Espionage Bureau in Brisbane 1916-19

Mr Denis Gojak

A Field Guide to Sydney's Fortifications

BRIG Philip Greville

History of the RAE, Vol 4

Dr David Horner

Biography of Sir Thomas Blamey

Dr Ross McMullin

Biography of Pompey Elliott

Dr Bobbie Oliver

History of Conscientious Objectors

Dr Gwynned
Hunter-Payne

Pilgrimage: Living with the Past

Ms Carolyne Palmer

BCOF 1945-52

Mr F.J. Perceval

Nominal Roll of the Boer War

Mr Anthony Staunton

Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

Ms Jane Tibby

National Service at Puckapunyal in the 1950s

Dr Michael Tyquin

Biography of Sir Neville Howse


1993-1994 recipients

Dr Phillip Deery

The Army and the 1949 Coal Strike

Mr Ashley Ekins

Military Discipline and Punishment in the First AIF

Dr David Horner

History of the RAA

Dr R. Hall

8 RAR in Vietnam: An Australian Infantry Battalion at War

Dr Ross McMullin

Biography of Pompey Elliott

Mr John Moreman

An Infrastructure for War: The Australian Army and the
Pacific 1942-45

BRIG Mike O'Brien

The Seventh - Vietnam

Dr Ian Walters

Dasher Wheatley and Australia in Vietnam

Dr John Williams

Reporting in British, French and German Sources: the First AIF