Alan Smith was born in Newcastle and educated at The Armidale School and Newcastle Boy’s High School. He gained an Associate Diploma in Industrial Chemistry in 1952 and in 1982 he completed a Masters Degree from the University of Newcastle in commerce and economics. He joined the C M F in 1951 as a Recruit Gunner in R Battery, 21 Field Regiment, RAA in Newcastle and wa...

Dr Albert Palazzo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies Centre in Canberra. He has written widely on warfare in the modern age, and on the Australian Army in particular. His many publications include: Seeking Victory on The Western Front: The British Army & Chemical Warfare in World War I; The Australian Army: A History of its Or...

Andy Millar is a retired Navy Commander, having served 26 years in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and 14 years in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The David Millar who features in [title] was his father. Andy was born in the UK in 1939. His family emigrated to New Zealand after World War Two, upon his father’s return from enduring three years as a POW in Japan.

Now retired and living happily in Melbourne with her husband and family, Annette has a Diploma of Teaching (Primary) and a Graduate Diploma of Media Studies. In the course of exiting Kenja, Annette received considerable media exposure, including national television, documentary and newspaper coverage. She has been a guest speaker at the Cult Awareness Conference...

Bob Doneley was born in Warwick, Queensland and grew up in Brisbane.  After graduating as a veterinarian he worked in private practice for nearly 30 years. IN 2010 he took up a position with the UQ School of Veterinary Science in Gatton. An experienced small animal vet, he is also a registered specialist in bird medicine.

 In 1978, as a first year uni st...

Brian P. Farrell is Deputy Head of the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he has been teaching military history since 1993. Farrell’s research interest is the military history of the British Empire. He has published more extensively on the defence and fall of Singapore than any other scholar, his main work being The Defence and Fal...

Bruce Cameron served in the Australian Regular Army for 19 years. After commanding the last troop of tanks in action in Vietnam, his career saw him attend the UK’s Long Armour Infantry Course and Royal Military College of Science, as well as the Australian Command and Staff College. His last appointment involved responsibility for developing the Army’s future ground mobility requirements. He left ...

Bruce Picken was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1947 and educated at the Geelong College. He commenced a five year electrical apprenticeship which was completed in April 1970. Two days later, he was on a bus heading for Puckapunyal army camp – 2nd Recruit Training Battalion (2RTB) to commence his ten weeks of basic training. This was followed by ten weeks of Infantry Co...

Cathy McCullagh is a Canberra-based freelance editor who counts military history as one of her specialities. A former army officer, she established her business in 2004, editing primarily for the Army History Unit, and working on manuscripts that ranged in subject from the tunnellers of World War I to chemical warfare in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the modern p...

Charles Granquist spent nearly four years as a POW when he was captured by the Germans in Europe and orchestrated a remarkable five escape attempts. Granquist recalls “the scariest part of this escaping caper was the point of re-capture. Staring down the barrels of a number of rifles and wondering whether some nervous and trigger-happy German might tighten his finger, ...