SABRETACHE
The Journal of the Military Historical
Society of
June 2008 Contents
5 The midshipman who changed the course
of the Gallipoli Campaign
John
Meyers
8 Medical history in WW1 Archives
Geoffrey Miller
9 Mounted troops at the
Roslyn King Pike Shepherd
21 Hugo Throssell’s
conversion to socialism
Peter
Hopper
25 The ‘Jap Track’: The Japanese route to Wau, January 1943
Philip Bradley
31 Mosquitoes bite at night
Ken Wright
37 From Morseby
to
Rohan Goyne
40
An
historical account of the
Sergei
DeSilva-Ranasinghe
45
First VC recipients to serve in
Australia
Anthony Staunton
49
Around the water cart
Joe Furphy
53 New releases
57 Book Reviews
61
US Medal of Honor
for
Anthony Staunton
Society Notices
4 Society
mailing list by Peter Evans
30 Members requests for assistance
64 Society membership subscriptions for 2008-2009
64 Research enquiries
64 Society’s
website links page
64 Sabretache
Contributions
Published by authority of the Federal
Council of the Military Historical Society of Australia.