ANZAC Guerillas in Yugoslavia’s Anti-Nazi Resistance
A Public Lecture by Edmund Goldrick
This lecture will discuss a group of Second World War Australian servicemen who performed the bulk of their service in Yugoslavia. Captured in Greece in 1941, they escaped in transit to occupied Yugoslavia and became embroiled in the war of resistance against Axis occupation. And later, in the civil war between the two resistance factions, the Partisans and the Četniks. Several of these Australians were later recruited as agents of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and, in the assessment of the speaker, provided the most accurate intelligence of any Allied sources from that theatre, save Ultra.
About the Presenter
Edmund Goldrick is a historian and bookseller from Canberra. He has lived in the UK, Germany, and Slovenia, and in 2020 was hired as co-author and researcher for Neil Churches’ The Greatest Escape, an account of the hundred man breakout from Stalag XVIII D. This research led him to uncover the accounts that formed the basis of his recently released book Anzac Guerrillas (Hachette Australia, 2025).
Announcement
The 2021 venue for The Military History Society of New South Wales lecture program will be the Auditorium at the Anzac Memorial Hyde Park, corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool Streets, Sydney CBD. Numerous bus services stop at the location and Museum railway station is only 160 metres away. The venue will be opening its doors at 10:30AM sharp.
