Don’t forget our May general Meeting is on this Saturday at Victoria Barracks. The highlight will be the “Great Debate”, no not Julia and Tony, but between two teams the topic, “Who Shot Down von Richthofen”. For full details on the meeting location and how to get there click on the events tab and then [...]

For the first time since 1965, the Society will publish multiple volumes of the ’14-’18 Journal. Australian based members should receive their copy by the end of the week, while overseas members should get theirs in the next 10 days. A big thank you to our Journal Editor Peter Chapman for another outstanding edition. A [...]

This is a great site not only can you find where the nearest Dawn Service Ceremony is to your home, you can also book a wake up call from General Peter Cosgrove.

It is with deep regret that I have to inform our members and friends that our long time Librarian, Peter Williams, passed away yesterday morning, March 18th. As some of you know Peter was diagnosed in January with cancer which forced him to stand down from the committee and vacate his position as Librarian, a [...]

For those of you who attended the last General Meeting at Victoria barracks, I stated that i hoped to have the costing and itinerary published within a few weeks. Unfortunately there has been a slight delay due to unforeseen circumstances. We are liaising with TVAL and our travel agent as I write this and hope [...]

Mike O’Connor, one of our UK-based members, passed away suddenly last Thursday (January 31st). Mike was the author of five books in the Airfields and Airmen series, and also a member of Cross & Cockade, where he was a frequent contributor to their Journals. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mike’s friends and family at [...]

By Peter Chapman John Albert Hoogterp was born on 27 December 1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The son of Dutch immigrant workers who had come to South Africa to assist in the construction of the railway between Lourenco Marques and Pretoria, he remained with his parents until the age of eight, when he was sent [...]

Air patrols were sent out on January 20th,1918, as soon as it was learned that the “Goeben” and “Breslau” were out. As a result of the harrying action of our aircraft, the “Breslau” was forced to steer a zig-sag course, and entered one of our minefields north-west of Rabbit Island, struck a mine, and shortly [...]

The following interview was conducted when I visited W/C Hepburn at his home in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, during the month of April, 1966. W/C Hepburn was born at Footscray, Victoria. As I was born in the year 1896, I was about eighteen years old when the 1914-18 war broke out. Like most young fellows of [...]