I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith: Fortress Innovator (The Great Emu Commander: Part One)


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2-NOVEMBER-1932. While serving as a professional soldier in the post-war Permanent Military Force of the Commonwealth Military Forces Honourary Brigadier General Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith served for 47 years continuously, and in doing so served in the Permanent Military Force, the First World War, the Second War and the Korean War, but he is most known as Major G P W Meredith, the Officer Commanding of the 7th Heavy Artillery Battery who oversaw an ill-advised nuisance wildlife management military operation that has become more a meme than a historical event, known comically as the Great Emu War 


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I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military HistoryBy Ross Manuel