Ernest Malley 📚🤨
@ErnestMalley
Dont make me come over there.
Whilst 'Italians' is trending, lets just take a moment to recognise the truly fantastic 1932, Stipa-Caproni...as sleek and majestic a machine of the air as we shall ever see.
Please enjoy this response to a post war 'open for business' notice by Lt Colonel Bill Scott DSO, Insurance executive & former CO of the doomed 2/21st Bn 'Gull Force' (Ambon) and ex prisoner of war. #WehaveWays ping @robert_lyman @almurray @madeofstone71 @nickfshort
July 1943 Lt H. Egan, of the Australian 2/3rd Commandos, is at left with a pipe and holding his Thompson SMG. He was killed in action a few days later on 21/7/43. They are manning a Vickers MG in a jungle gunpit on a humid hotly contested ridgetop near Salamaua, New Guinea coast.
July 1943 New Guinea: New Guineans cross a vine bridge over the Francisco River enroute to front line. They carried mortar shells, stores and wounded soldiers on their shoulders over some of the toughest terrain in the world. 3 naked Australian engineers are at work in the river.
The AAC5 'Rhino'. I think you will all agree with is this beast Australia had yet again stunned the world with its armoured developments. 😉#WeHaveWays
July 14 1943, New Guinea: Sturdy carriers of the Mekeo people continue their work bringing key supplies forward as engineers of the 11th Australian Infantry Division use hand tools to laboriously carve a road through humid jungle from Bulldog outpost through the mountains to Wau.
A photo of my grandfathers brothers plaque in Kings park not long after it was installed.
Photos taken at the same spot 75 years apart.. It’s at Kings Park a memorial plaque dedicated to my grandfathers brother Thomas Watson WX7307.
#reading ‘Imperial Warriors: Britain and the Gurkhas’ by Tony Gould.
Tenets of Manoeuvre Warfare - Singapore Campaign. What went right for the Japanese and wrong for the Allies? Tempo, combined arms and Joint Fires and Effects. Allies never overcame Japanese Audacity. #PME #doctrine #sww #history #milhistory #podcast #jpme youtu.be/mySjxue4E54
Enjoyed listening to John William Dodd’s (WX10009) story. It wasn’t just interesting hearing about his experience in WW2, but also how it shaped him as a person afterwords. awm.gov.au/collection/C87…
Other Australian UK based units you may never have heard of...
Australia will be there. OTD in 1940 As Britain still reels from the Dunkirk evacuation a convoy slips into a Scottish port , its content? A fighting formation of the Australian Imperial Forces
OBOE. 1st July 1945 The final major amphibious landing of the second world war is carried out by the Australian 7th Division at Balikpapan...
A fantastic article by @KarlJames_1945 on the Australian military efforts in 1945. wm.awm.gov.au/read/final-cam…
Truly one of the most consequential Company actions of the war. If you don't know about Capt Bill Sherlock (AKA 'The saviour of Wau') & A Coy 2/6th Bn's stand then you really should; 92 men holding off 1500 Japanese. #WeHaveWays @James1940 @almurray x.com/madeofstone71/…
Just reading about a hero of yours @olly2518 and you might be right.
Was the Fall of Singapore inevitable? We conduct the AAR for the Malaya Campaign. What did the IJA get right and what did the Allies get wrong? Important Lessons Learnt from this forgotten campaign. #history #milhistory #doctrine #OODALoop #pme #jpme youtu.be/p_X-13064XQ
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the death of John Curtin, Australian prime minister from 1941 to 1945. I wrote about the depictions of his death by his biographers and some aspects of their biographical methodology. nathanhobby.com/2025/07/04/the…
Bill Slim and the reasons for victory in India (1944) Burma (1945) @forgottenwarpod @TheBurmaStar @HistoryBowsh open.substack.com/pub/robertlyma…
#reading ‘The Black Watch: Fighting In The Front Line 1899-2006’ by Victoria Schofield.
A great book by @KarlJames_1945 on the independent companies. It’s laid out well with the story on how they were formed, and has lots of interesting pictures.