Welcome to our 83 rd podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Another podcast about the home front. We are staying in rural Victoria in Australia to learn about the role of the Cressy Aerodrome during World War II. The website for Cressy Aerodrome...
Aug 10, 2025•10 min•Ep. 83
Welcome to our 82nd podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have known that during WW2 the Goulburn Valley in Victoria housed nearly 10,000 Prisoners of War and internees in 7 purpose built camps. John Gribben joins us to give an incred...
Jul 19, 2025•28 min•Ep. 82
Welcome to our 81st podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net I recently attended a military conference in Melbourne hosted by Military History & Heritage Victoria. One of the reasons I enjoy attending these conferences is that you never stop l...
May 31, 2025•33 min•Ep. 81
Welcome to our 80th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Anzac Day 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the commemoration of the landing at Gallipoli. When thinking of places linked to the Gallipoli campaign, you may have heard of places such a...
Apr 24, 2025•36 min•Ep. 80
Welcome to our 79th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The theme so far this year with our podcasts has been books. That theme continues with this podcast and our chat with author, Ian W Shaw. Ian has written a number of books related to Aus...
Mar 31, 2025•43 min•Ep. 79
elcome to our 78th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have known that Rowville, a suburb of Melbourne, hosted a Prisoner of War Camp during WWII. Author Darren Arnott tells us about the history including his book about a darker cha...
Feb 27, 2025•14 min•Ep. 78
Welcome to our 77th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the first for 2025. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Ceylon, modern day Sri Lanka, was a strategic point for the allies in WW2 including hosting thousands of Australians. Meg Adams has recently contributed to a book ...
Jan 26, 2025•20 min•Ep. 77
Welcome to our 76th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the last for 2024 Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting one of Australia’s leading military historians at a conference hosted by Military History & Heritage Victoria. Professor ...
Dec 01, 2024•27 min•Ep. 76
Welcome to our 75th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have thought the 1st AIF had cycling battalions. Ally Roche from the Australian War Memorial, herself a cycling enthusiast joins us to tell us about these units. You can find o...
Sep 25, 2024•22 min•Ep. 75
Welcome to podcast number 74 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The Shrine in Melbourne recently hosted an advance screening of a new documentary titled ‘Anzac-The Greek Chapter’. It tells the story of the Anzacs in Greece during the 1941 camp...
Aug 19, 2024•13 min•Ep. 74
Welcome to podcast number 73 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net On the 5th of August 1944 there was a mass prisoner of war escape from a POW camp in Cowra, New South Wales. Cowra is preparing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of what is call...
Jun 28, 2024•23 min•Ep. 74
Welcome to podcast number 72 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net One of the special things about doing these podcasts is coming across what I call hidden treasures of Australian military history located in our own backyard. Who knew for example...
May 31, 2024•30 min•Ep. 73
Welcome to podcast number 71 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net This month, March 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape. Many people have heard about the mass escape of allied POWs from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 which was im...
Mar 22, 2024•47 min•Ep. 72
Welcome to podcast number 70 for Thanks for your Service and out first podcast for 2024. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net In 2023, the National Archives of Australia reached a significant milestone, having digitised more than one million World War II records. These reco...
Feb 07, 2024•25 min•Ep. 71
Welcome to podcast number 69 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Our next guest gives as remarkable insight into the Australian army’s vital yet probably least known units- Unrecovered War Casualties - Army. Major Cameron Clarke joins us to tel...
Dec 05, 2023•26 min•Ep. 70
Welcome to podcast number 68 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Christmas time is nearly upon us and if you are looking for idea for a present, keep listening. My exposure to WW2 prisoners of war were shaped by movies such as the Great Escape ...
Nov 07, 2023•24 min•Ep. 69
Welcome to podcast number 67 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net One of the great experiences of doing these podcasts is coming across remnants of Australian military history that not a lot of people know about. Who knew that Ballarat in Victor...
Oct 23, 2023•32 min•Ep. 68
Welcome to podcast number 66 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net If you have ventured into a local park in Australia you may have come across a remnant of the colonial era of our military past…an old canon or gun. John Rogers has spent consider...
Sep 20, 2023•29 min•Ep. 67
Welcome to podcast number 65 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The 18th of August is Vietnam Veterans day and for 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. One Vietnam veteran is commemorating ...
Aug 17, 2023•15 min•Ep. 66
Welcome to podcast number 64 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Back in February this year we chatted to Karen and Tom, the folks behind the podcast and web page for 108 Years Later. It follows the day by day diary entries from a WWI digger. W...
Jul 30, 2023•15 min•Ep. 65
Welcome to podcast number 63 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Something special is happening on Saturday 23 May 2023 involving a war horse called Sandy. Ross Smith from Tallangatta in Victoria joins us to tell us about the the unveiling of a...
May 15, 2023•37 min•Ep. 64
Welcome to podcast number 62 for Thanks for your Service for Anzac Day, 25 April 2023. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net I recently came across a comprehensive research project on the 22nd Battalion of the First AIF whilst doing some research on my grandfathers service i...
Apr 25, 2023•42 min•Ep. 63
Welcome to podcast number 61 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Bill Sellars is an Australian journalist who has been living on the Gallipoli peninsula since 2002. He talks to us about life on the peninsula, its history and the WW1 battlefield...
Mar 13, 2023•23 min•Ep. 62
Welcome to podcast number 60 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net 108 years ago, a WW1 Anzac digger kept a diary and recorded his departure in late 1914 from Australia to the shores of Gallipoli. In 2022, his diary was found. Let’s find out what...
Feb 13, 2023•13 min•Ep. 61
Welcome to podcast number 59 for Thanks for your Service. Our first podcast for 2023. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net During the January school holidays, I took the family down to Williamstown in Melbourne to visit a unique historical floating museum. This is part two ...
Jan 28, 2023•26 min•Ep. 60
Welcome to podcast number 58 for Thanks for your Service. Our first podcast for 2023. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net During the January school holidays, I took the family down to Williamstown in Melbourne to visit a unique historical floating museum. This is part one ...
Jan 21, 2023•28 min•Ep. 59
Welcome to podcast number 57 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Christmas is just around the corner and if you need a last minute gift then don’t look past Michael Veitch’s latest book. In Part 2 of this podcast, Michael talks about his new bo...
Dec 15, 2022•24 min•Ep. 58
Welcome to podcast number 56 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Christmas is just around the corner and if you need a last minute gift then don’t look past Michael Veitch’s latest book. In Part 1 of this podcast, Michael talks about his new bo...
Dec 08, 2022•24 min•Ep. 57
Welcome to podcast number 55 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The Park Orchards Chalet lies empty in the north east Melbourne suburb of Park Orchards. Originally built as a country club house in 1928, during WW2 the Australian army soon requ...
Oct 22, 2022•11 min•Ep. 56
Welcome to podcast number 54 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The Royal Australian Navy has had 5 ships named HMAS Sydney. The second HMAS Sydney was lost with all hands during WWII and it was only after a remarkable search the wreckage was ...
Sep 03, 2022•25 min•Ep. 55
