Thanks For Your Service Podcasts

Welcome to our 94th podcast for Thanks for your Service.  Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  

Military rifle ranges in Australia have a long history that traversed the colonial era to federation.  One such range is in Ballarat.  The Canadian Rifle Range is in the suburb of Canadian.  It's recognized as Victoria’s finest intact colonial and imperial-era rifle range.  I joined Jeff Rootes, President of the Friends of Canadian Corridor on the site of the former range.

Thanks to Jeff for an insightful look at the range.  I would also like to thank Andrew Parker who put me in touch with Jeff.  Andrew has his own podcast called Andrew’s History Notes.  It features podcasts on the history of Ballarat’s and surrounds and he has also has a podcast on the rifle range in Canadian.

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Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 93rd podcast for Thanks for your Service.

Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

In 1945, just after the victory in Europe, the Australian army suffered its worst training accident in Kapooka, New South Wales.  Andrew Johnston has written a book about it and joins us to tell us more.

His website is www.andrewjohnstonbooks.com

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Welcome to our 92nd podcast for Thanks for your Service.

Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

On 27 July each year, Korean Veterans Day commemorates the anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in Korea.  Michael Kelly, a historian at the Australian War Memorial joins us to tell us more about the conflict that is also referred to as the forgotten war.

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 91st podcast for Thanks for your Service.  Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Dr Daryl Moran joins us to talk about his latest book, ‘First to Serve and Sacrifice- Stories of Australians in the Boer War in their own words‘

You can purchase a copy of Daryl's book at Echo Books   

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 90th  podcast for Thanks for your Service.

Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Author Kristen Alexander has been a regular on our podcast and today joins us to tell us about Australia’s fighter ace of WW2.

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 89th  podcast for Thanks for your Service.

Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Anzac Day 2026 is almost upon us and it commemorates our baptism of fire as a nation at Gallipoli in World War I.   Our military history dates back to well before federation. One example still in existence today dating back to 1860, Fort Queenscliff in Victoria.  It made Port Phillip by the late 1800s, one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire.

Dr Bob Marmion, Secretary of the Fort Queenscliff Heritage Association Inc.  joins us to tell us more.

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and Facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 88th  podcast for Thanks for your Service .Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Many of our listeners would have heard about Bletchley Park in the UK that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. 

During the war, Australia had its own code breakers. David Kenyon, Research Historian at Bletchley Park joins us to tell us about our links with the famous site.

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 87th  podcast for Thanks for your Service and our first for 2026

Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Each year, on 24 February, is National Day for War Animals in Australia.  A day where we commemorate the deeds and sacrifices of animals in war.  

Nigel Allsopp, President of the Australian War Animals Memorial Organisation joins us to tell us more about the roles of animals at war, and the organisation.

The website of he Australian War Animals Memorial Organisation (AWAMO) can be found at www.awamo.org.au

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 86th podcast for Thanks for your Service.  Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Michael Veitch is back again with perhaps his last book with an Australian military history focus.

Christmas is only weeks away so what a great gift this book would make.  

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 85th podcast for Thanks for your Service.  Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at [email protected]

Scattered throughout many towns of Australia are Avenues of Honour- a memorial avenue of trees, with each tree symbolising a person who has served in war.

Just before Remembrance Day 2025, I visited the town of Kingston in Victoria.  Julie Baulch and Leah Armstrong from the Friends of the Avenue joined me to talk to me about the Kingston Avenue of Honour.

The wind forced us to take refuge in the Commercial Hotel in Kingston- which also houses the Kingston Avenue of Honour Memorial Wall and resource centre.

The website for the avenue is  www.kingstonavenueofhonour.org.au

We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch.

You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast.

Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website.

Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.