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Major General the Honourable Justice Paul Brereton AM, RFD on From Soudan to the South West Pacific: Military campaigns and the development of national identity.

The Brigadier E. J. H. (John) Howard CBE Commemorative Lecture for 2015 with Dr Rhys Crawley, Centre for Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University on Reconsidering the August Offensive, the climax at Gallipoli, 1915.

Benjamin Howell has studied the Napoleonic Wars for the past 20 years and has previously presented to the Society on both the Russian and Spanish / Iberian campaigns. The lecture will cover Napoleon’s Elba exile & return to France, and the 100 days (including the famous Battle itself from both the French and Allied English perspectives).

This lecture reviews the historic and decisive ‘Battle of Khalkhin Gol’, which resulted in the 1939 defeat of the Japanese Sixth Army on the border of Mongolia and Manchukuo.

The Military History Society of NSW Inc presents Dr. Stephen Bourke, Archaeologist, Sydney University and Director of the Pella Excavation on the Invasion of the Sea Peoples on Saturday, 9 May 2015.

Dr Rhys Crawley, Australian National University, will lead a half day seminar on the personalities (in London and in theatre) with a focus on GHQ and how it worked together and with the Navy (or did not work together) in planning (strategically and operationally) the events of April 1915.