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- Tags: war
Opossum Gargoyle
Koala Gargoyle
"Australian War Memorial: Largest Stone Building in the Southern Hemisphere."
C. E. W. Bean Oxford University heraldic shield
Tags: Australian War Memorial, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Collaroy, Commonwealth Archives, education, First World War, Gallipoli, heraldry, historians, journalism, official war histories, Oxford, Oxford University, plaque, shield, Sir William Throsby Bridges and Sir Cyril Brudnell Bingham White, Sydney Morning Herald, Tuggeranong, university, Victoria Barracks, war, Western Front, World War, World War I
One-Man Tank, ‘Medieval Knight’
Royal Engineer, Maj. Martel, invented a one-man tank that replicates the medieval knight in armour, with the addition of ‘caterpillar track legs’ and a ‘petrol engined heart’. The contraption is fashioned from car parts…
SMH Thurs 19 July 1945 Welcome Banquet in London Guildhall for Australian Sailors
Tags: ‘young bronzed sailors’ myth, Admiralty Arch, Australian Navy, brave hosts, Guildhall ceremonies, heroic guests, HMAS Australia, medieval banquet hall, military, monuments, navy, Old and New worlds, post-war celebrations, ruined medieval buildings, Second World War, stained–glass windows, street march, Trafalgar Square, Waltzing Matilda on London streets, war, war victory, WWII
Meeting of Chamberlain and Eden clad as medieval admirals
Troubadour Song
Tags: Australian, Australian poem, Australian poetry, bard, bardic, Classical, court, courtly, courtly poetry, lyric, lyric poet, lyrical, lyrical poet, medieval, medieval undertones, poem, poems, poet, poetry, romance, sing, singing, song, Tasmania, troubadour, war, warrior, warriors