Past speakers
Monthly lectures are available free to members and guests. Featuring renowned speakers from Australian defence and security organisations, universities, other historical societies and “think tanks”, these insightful topics provide great depth into conflicts and period of history of historical military importance.
The Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Dennis Weatherall, Councillor of the Society
Lake Tanganyika is the longest freshwater lake in the world, but one of the strangest battles of WWI took place on its placid waters. Hear Battlefield Guide Dennis Weatherall’s detailed account of this feat of arms.
49th Annual General Meeting and Lecture
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Military History Society of NSW, Major General the Honourable Justice Paul Brereton AM RFD will give a lecture on Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG, MA, LLB.
Chris Matthew on Fate, Pre-Destination and the Mindset of Ancient and Modern Warriors
The Military History Society of NSW presents Chris Matthew on Fate, Pre-Destination and the Mindset of Ancient and Modern Warriors – some of the first recorded instances of physical and psychological reactions to the traumas of war.
Craig Collie on Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks The Brigadier E. J. H. (John) Howard CBE Commemorative Lecture for 2017 Craig Collie is the author of the highly acclaimed The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track […]
Interrupting a hybrid war: new perspectives on Australia’s military involvement in East Timor in 1999
The Military History Society of NSW presents Associate Professor Bob Breen on: Interrupting a hybrid war: new perspectives on Australia’s military involvement in East Timor in 1999.
Mr Robert Muscat on: Did America win the War of Independence or did Britain lose the American colonies?
The Military History Society of NSW presents Mr Robert Muscat on: Did America win the War of Independence or did Britain lose the American colonies?
Forensic anthropology and archaeology in the identification of battlefield remains
The Military History Society of NSW presents Dr Denise Donlon curator of the Shellshear Museum of Physical Anthropology on forensic anthropology and archaeology in the identification of battlefield remains.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Peter Sweeney RFD on Rabaul – World War I and II
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents Retired Lieutenant Colonel Peter Sweeney RFD on Rabaul – World War I and II The speaker at our next meeting on 3 June will be retired Lieutenant Colonel Peter Sweeney RFD with a presentation titled “Rabaul WWI & WWII”. Prior to the start of […]
Noel Phelan on the Japanese Mini-Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents Noel Phelan from the Australian National Maritime Museum on The Japanese Mini-Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour On 29 May 1942 five large Japanese I class submarines rendezvoused some 35 nautical miles northeast of the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Before daylight the next morning an E14Y […]
Mike Carlton on the cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan
The Military History Society of NSW presents Mike Carlton on The cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan. In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm.
