Important Announcement
Due to the impacts of Covid-19, The Society will postpone all lectures and excursions until further notice.
The well-being of our members and the community are of paramount importance. We feel this is the best way to ensure we uphold these standards while meeting the obligations under current health restrictions.
We appreciate your ongoing support in this difficult time. The Society is looking at options for online lectures, and we will update members when lectures are able to resume. Our plan is to get lectures and excursions restarted as soon as it is safe to do so.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Our Recent Lectures
Hurricanes to Russia By Denis Smith
Denis Smith's talk tells the largely unknown story of HMS Argus, the aircraft carrier which transported 24 RAF Hurricane fighter planes to Russia in 1941.
Breakout from Normandy By Robert Muscat
This lecture is the Society’s contribution to 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day. By end June 1944 the word most feared by Allied senior commanders and politicians was “stalemate”. US First Army and British Second Army units made few inroads into Normandy since the D-Day landings on 6 June.
No Ground Given, 2/27th Battalion AID at Mission Ridge and Brigade Hill, Kokoda, By Adrian Clack
At the battles of Mission Ridge and Brigade Hill, 7-8 September 1942, in the legendary Kokoda Trail Campaign, three sister battalions of the AIF were together for the first time.
Sectioning a Leopard Tank By Paul Handel
Over three decades from 1976 to 2007 the Leopard 1 Tank was the work horse of the Australian Army’s 1st Armoured Regiment. In 2015 the Australian Army History Unit (AAHU) received support for a project to section or “cut-in-half” a Leopard Tank so that students in armoured vehicle courses could see the interior of a main battle tank.
Defying the Kaiserreich by Bruce Gaunson
Did Australia have reason to fear Germany’s Pacific power? Most definitely yes argues Dr Bruce Gaunson, having examined the views of competent analysts at the time and dramatic evidence from the Kaiserreich’s records supporting those pre-1914 analysts.
Sunk Warships, 1942: HMAS Perth & USS Houston By Natali Pearson
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents [...]