by Juliana Byers | Jan 22, 2025 | Australian History, Military History, Murder, Political History, Post-1900, Social History, True Crime, World War 1
Why Records Go Missing Podcast: Australia’s Deadliest Picnic On New Year’s Day 1915, in the outback town of Broken Hill, New South Wales, two men opened fire on an open-air train, carrying 1200 people to nearby Silverton for the day. Four people were killed and...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 26, 2024 | ANZAC Day, Australian History, Gallipoli, Memorials, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, The Somme, World War 1
Today is the 25th of April, and the 109th anniversary of the catastrophic failure that was the Gallipoli invasion. Oops! Sorry Twitter-lynch mob, I meant today is the 109th anniversary of the greatest day in Australian history, where we became a nation, baptized in...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, Travel, World War 1
…and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell into the bottomless mud and lost the light… – Siegfried Sassoon, “Memorial Tablet” (1918)1 In 2018, I realised a long-term dream of mine to visit Ireland. I’d been saving for years to go and had a wonderful...
by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Conspiracy Theories, Political History, Post-1900, Social History, Vanishings & Missing Persons
“Look, Tony, what are the odds of a Prime Minister drowning or being taken by a shark?” – Harold Holt, to his press secretary Tony Eggelton, in 1967. When a young Harold Holt was seventeen, he decided that, one day, he would be the Prime Minister. At first glance,...
