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- Militaria from the Gallipoli Campaign By Gary Traynor
- Battlefields Under Threat By David Wilson
- Australian War Brides by Ms. Eleanor Limprecht
- Transitioning the Post-War ADF for Combat Operations in the Modern Age By Peter Hayes
- Centennial WW1 Armistice Tribute, Gallipoli, Western Front and Palestine – Eye Witness Accounts by Dr Jonathan King
- Over Flight – The U2 Spy Plane Incident By Dennis Weatherall
- Monash at The Battle of Hamel: a brilliant pupil outshines his master by Robert Muscat
- How Australia’s signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War by David Duffy
- The Malayan Emergency, 1948-60, by Seumas Tan
- Peter Sweeney – Battle of the Coral Sea, 4-8 May 1942
- The Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Dennis Weatherall, Councillor of the Society
- 49th Annual General Meeting and Lecture
- Chris Matthew on Fate, Pre-Destination and the Mindset of Ancient and Modern Warriors
- Craig Collie on Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia’s two Bletchley Parks
- 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?
- Forensic anthropology and archaeology in the identification of battlefield remains
- Retired Lieutenant Colonel Peter Sweeney RFD on Rabaul – World War I and II
- Noel Phelan on the Japanese Mini-Submarine Attack on Sydney Harbour
- Mike Carlton on the cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan
- Robert Muscat on The Great Siege of Malta 1565 – “the clash of sword and scimitar”
- Lieutenant Colonel David Deasey RFD on Australian involvement in the Guerrilla War Phase of the Boer War
- Mr Clinton Reilly on The Longbow and the Gunpowder Revolution
- Dr. Kevin Smith on The Sinking of the Corvette HMAS ARMIDALE on 1st December, 1942
- David Cooper on The Battle of Antietam in the American Civil War
- Air Vice Marshal Bob Treloar AO (RAAF retd.) on Helicopters in Vietnam
- Mr. Brad Manera on The Battle of Fromelles through the eyes of Private Walter Eyles, 54th Battalion AIF
- Mr. Clinton Reilly on The Battle of Rorke’s Drift
- Benjamin Howell on The Battle of the Three Emperors – Austerlitz
- Dr Kevin Smith OAM on Sandakan – An Unanticipated Captivity
- Dr Stephen Bourke on The Battle of Qadesh 1274 BC
- Mr Clinton Reilly on The Battle of Isandlwana, 1879
- Captain Ralph Derbidge MBE, RAN (Retired) on The Vietnam War and the Royal Australian Navy
- Mr. Colin Kay DCM Society Member on The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
- Mr. David Twyford on The English Electric Canberra Bomber and its part in the Malayan Emergency, 1950-60
- The Hon. Justice Paul Brereton AM, RFD on From Soudan to the South West Pacific: Military campaigns and the development of national identity
- Dr Rhys Crawley, Centre for Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University on Reconsidering the August Offensive, the climax at Gallipoli, 1915.
- Benjamin Howell on The Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo
- Mr. Ravdan Bold, Ambassador of Mongolia to Australia, on The Battle of Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan)
- Dr. Stephen Bourke, Archaeologist, Sydney University and Director of the Pella Excavation on The Invasion of the Sea Peoples
- Dr Rhys Crawley on Gallipoli and the strategic significance of the Dardanelles
- Mr. Steve McGregor on Warfare in Ancient Egypt, Weapons and Tactics of the Greek Phalanxes, the Roman Legions and more
- Mr Mike Carlton on HMAS Sydney’s hunt for the German raider SMS Emden
- Mr Tim Bowden on THE CHANGI CAMERA: A unique record of Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway
- Professor Joan Beaumont on BROKEN NATION: Battles at home and abroad
- Lieutenant Colonel David Deasey RFD on The Anglo-Boer War:
Australian Mounted Operations 1901-1902
- Historian, Author and Film maker Mr Will Davies on Great Mates: Douglas Marks and Harry Murray
- President of the Spitfire Association, Steve McGregor, on The Spitfire
- Brigadier Philip Carey on Assassination in Sarajevo: an overture to The First World War
- Diplomat from the U.S. Consulate in Sydney Scott Simpson on The Battle of Little Bighorn
- Benjamin Howell on Napoleon’s Spanish Ulcer
- Captain David Michael: The Centenary of the Royal Australian Navy
- Sandy MacGregor on A Sappers’ War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong
- Ms Lauren Hewitt on The Lost Diggers
- Australia’s Dambusters: The Men and the Missions of 617 RAF Squadron
- Six Theatres of War: The true story of Australian Fighter Pilot Nat Gould
- Scott Simpson on the Battle of Gettysburg
- Peter Xie: Causes of the Peloponnesian War
- Dr Ross McMullin: Farewell, dear people: Biographies of Australia’s lost generation
- Ms Dorothea Preis: Richard III and the conclusion of a 500 year old mystery
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