Past speakers

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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?

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.

The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents [...]

The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents [...]

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.