Episode 5.4 The Battle of Fromelles Part 4 Australian Galahad
Pompey Elliott's Australian 15th Brigade attacked the unbreakable 'Sugarloaf' on 19 July 1916. This is the story of this disastrous attack. Teddy Roosevelt befriended one of the survivors. Hear T.R.'s...
3 Juli 20191h 1min
Episode 5.3 The Battle of Fromelles Part 3 Real Men
13 year, 11 month old Leonard Jackson was able to fool the enlistment officers and go overseas to Egypt but his father Joe wasn't fooled. It was impossible to find the lad among all the thousands of r...
21 Maj 20191h 15min
Episode 5.2 The Battle of Fromelles Part 2 Tiveys heroes
'The sergeant comes up shouting, "Hey! Haven't y' gone yet? Got cold feet?" "Cold feet yourself," Ted retorts. And then seeing Bert, who has been missing for some time, Ted produces a note-book and ca...
6 Apr 20191h 9min
Episode 5.1 The Battle of Fromelles
"A young sergeant led a section that passed in artillery formation, and I shall never forget that godlike youth while life shall last. To think of him now is an inspiration, for he was Australia, youn...
9 Mars 201935min
Episode 4.1 Interview of Jim Briant Part 1
In 1973 Keith Tidswell placed a microphone in front of his grandfather, cameleer, light horseman and field ambulanceman. Over an hour later Jim had recounted his training, the trip over, a little abou...
5 Jan 201956min
Episode 3.4 Flogging German civilians
In late October 1914, English born missionary, Reverend Cox was assaulted and flogged with a cane by several Germans and a Belgian on the island of New Ireland. What followed was one of the few blemis...
12 Nov 201826min
Episode 3.3 The AE1 the Sydney and the Emden
This one is action packed, Bill hides stores, watches the surrender of New Guinea, is present when the submarine AE1 went missing and heard first hand about the sinking of the SMS Emden by HMAS Sydney...
21 Okt 201838min
