MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

 

50th JUBILEE BIENNIAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

EASTER 2008

 

 

Friday 21 March

 

6.00 -9.00-pm      Meet and Greet at the Army Museum of Western Australia Officers’ Mess, Artillery Barracks, Burt Street, Fremantle. Early registrations and refreshments

 

Saturday 22 March

 

9.00 am                Conference Registrations

 

10.00 am              Formal Opening – Conference format and housekeeping – Paul Hamilton, Conference Convenor

                            Welcome address by WA Branch President, Pat Hall and introduction to the Patron, Air Marshal IB Gration, AO, AFC, who will officially open the Conference

 

10.15 am              Paper - Haig's Right Hand Man -Lt-Gen. Sir Richard Butler KCB, KCMG- - The Australian Connection.  Capt Wayne Gardiner, RFD

 

11.00 am              Morning Tea

 

11.20 am              Paper  - Nazi Kinder – What happened to the offspring of the leading Nazis.  Gail Gunn

 

12.00                   Members’ display viewing

 

12.30 pm              Lunch

 

1.30 pm                Paper - Victoria Crosses of the Palestine Campaign. Anthony Staunton

 

2.15 pm                Paper  - The Kilted Battalion – 16th Infantry Battalion (The Cameron Highlanders of WA).  Peter Shaw

 

3.10 pm                Afternoon Tea

 

3.30 pm                Research In Progress – Brief presentations by members seeking information or reporting on the progress of various research pursuits

 

4.45  pm               Close of papers

 

6.30 for 7.00 pm Conference Dinner at the Leeuwin Barracks Mess, East Fremantle

 

 

Sunday 23 March

 

8.30 am            Closed Federal Council and Branch Representatives Meeting

 

9.15 am            Venue Open

 

9.45 am            Guided tour through the Army Museum of Western Australia.  This will include a tour through the galleries as well as behind the scenes.  The tour will be conducted by Captain Wayne Gardiner (Curator) and Mr Peter Shaw (Museum Liaison Officer)

 

12.30 pm         Lunch

 

1.30 pm           Paper - Sometime Soldiers – The de Pierres Family in 200 Years Military service to France, Britain and Australia. Paul de Pierres

 

2.15 pm           Paper - Lieut. John Napier McGill, 96th Regiment.  Tony Harris

 

3.05 pm           Afternoon Tea

 

3.25 pm           Paper – Korea – A Collector’s Perspective  Steve Danaher

 

4.10 pm           Paper - The organisation, Structure and Development of the Australian Army Dental Corps in WW2.  Lt-Col Sven Kuusk, RFD (retd)

 

4.50 pm           Close of papers

 

Monday 24 March

 

9.00 am            Venue open

 

9.15 am            Formal Closure of the Conference – Federal President Maj Rob Morrison, RFD and closing words from the Patron Air Marshal IB Gration, AO, AFC (retd). 

                        The next Conference.

 

10.00 am          Morning Tea

 

10.30 am          Members’ only trade and sell market- books, militaria etc.

 

12.00 pm         Farewell and closure of venue