Hi all You are of course aware that George Orwell served five years as a policeman in Burma, 1922 to 1927, with the Indian Imperial Police force....
Wayne Morris has got to rate a mention. He played a the drunken coward Lieutenant Roget in Stanley Kubrick's unforgetable Paths of Glory. Morris...
Lorna Johnson was a nurse stationed in Rabaul when the Japanese invaded in 1942. She was taken prisoner and held for three years both in Rabaul...
I found this picture of Sgt. J W Smith on the Australian War Memorial site, caption and link to photograph underneath [ATTACH] Place made -...
I dont think anyone posted on this yet. I heard it on a Monday night news program while listening to Radio Australia. The direct link is posted...
As other have indicated I think the idea was to leave as much of the remaining social, cultural and political structures intact through which the...
Here is a link to a page with first hand New Zealand accounts of some of the coastwatchers that were captured in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in...
The following from Radio Australia today: - Families seeking closure on Coastwatcher deaths Attempts to identify bodies thought to possibly be...
I am not an American but, Guadalcanal for me The Japanese were still on the offensive. Noone had the benefit of hindsight and the guys on the...
Well, I believe I have managed to reduce the photograph sufficient to post. Obviously it shows the front of the medal awarded to Garn M L. It is...
Well done Up From Marseille !!! I had not known about this. It was not posted by me but a friend, a locally based historian, must have passed on...
Thanks Pamedic13 Do you know where or when the pictures were taken in New Guinea?
Leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum recently included point 37 in the statement released at the end of their meeting in New Zealand. Point...
Following on from my previous post, here are a few more finds from Guadalcanal. A pistol found at the Gifu position on Mount Austen (the cocking...
Outstanding !! Thank you all. Guadalcanal is an amazing place. One minute you will be sweating and struggling through town and the next you...
Thanks everyone. I googled as suggested by Takao and it seems entirely possible it is a Boys anti tank rifle round. Wonder when it got there....
Thanks formerjughead. It could well be that is is an armour piercing round and the weighted core has separated at some point, that is pretty much...
Thanks for the comments. Yes I have seen the tracer rounds and the paint / coloring is on the tip, apart from that they are the same as any other...
I found this yesterday at Holy Cross cathedral here in Honiara, Guadalcanal, which is built on a ridge that hosted Japanese machine guns covering...
Yes Skipper, Vanuatu is still bilingual, a not entirely happy hangover from the old colonial condominium. Tourism is pretty big in Vanuatu and...
