A Eulogy for Jack

2025-07-07 A Eulogy for Jack

Dr Jack Ford

4 May 1957 – 29 June 2025

My Dearest Friend…

Acknowledgements to Brenda Biggs, Leela Ford, and Drs. Sue Keays, Chris Hanlon, Catherine Manathunga, Peter Overlack, Joanne Scott, Bernadette Turner, and Dr Jack Ford’s primary source data.

“You just keep telling the Grim Reaper that he’s gotten the wrong address and come back in another decade or four!” Jack Ford to Neville Buch, email 28 April 2011.

Jack, would have appreciated the task of having to research, write and publish a eulogy. It is truly primary source research, and the first place I examined was the Gmail folder called “Jack & Brenda”. There are 420 emails in the folder to date, and dating back to Friday, 30 July 2010, at 21:54, on forwarding a military history post. Jack has made the research easier as he was one for producing many correspondence documents, although Brenda says he was often inaccurate about details in the family-personal history.

Jonathan Marcus Joseph Ford (1957-2025) was always known to his friends as ‘Jack’. He was a professional historian, important to the scoping of Queensland and Brisbane histories and the history of the Dutch-Australian contribution in World War II. In this later regard, was his major work, Australia and the Netherlands East Indies in the Second World War, was published in 1996 and it is hoped to be soon republished. One brief review stated:

Of the forces that came to defend Australia during World War II, the Dutch connection was second in size to that of the Americans and it certainly overshadowed the British contribution. It is the military and diplomatic relationship between the Dutch and Australia, which had as it central point the fate of the Netherlands East Indies, that is the focus of this book.

More is to be said further on. Jack Ford’s early rise to success was the educational pathway:

• Diploma of Teaching (Primary) in 1978 from the Capricornia Institute of Advance Education;
• Also, from the Capricornia Institute of Advance Education the Bachelor of Arts, in 1981; and from…
• The University of Queensland, a Master of Art (Qualifying) in 1984, and the Ph.D. in history in 1995.

Like many of us in this room, his post-Ph.D. career was short with the institutional failure of the past decades. He worked in the new century as the Brisbane City Council Unit historian. To quote Jack’s own words in a PHA membership form:

…I researched and wrote citations for proposed heritage sites. I was given responsibility for the heritage aspects of: Aspley Local Area Plain (L.A.P.), Spring Hill Heritage Study, West End -Woolloongabba L.A.P., Mid-North District Plan, South-East District Plan and the C.B.D. Heritage Study. My other responsibilities included public consultation over Council’s heritage and character provisions, representation of Council at public meetings, addressing clubs or other groups on local heritage, answering public enquires regarding to Brisbane history, preparation of funding submissions, assessing local history grant applications, researching and providing the test case house for the 2004 publication, “Your House has a History – Keys to Unlocking its Past”.

By his retirement in 2014, Jack’s accomplishment had been to secure heritage protection for 337 places, authored three heritage signs, and to write inscriptions for four war memorials. In recognition of his outstanding work, he received a National Trust of Queensland Heritage Award in 2008.

Figure 1: Jack and friends c.1962

Although Jack spent most of his schooling years in Rockhampton, Jack Ford was the model Brisbane historian. Brisbane was in his blood. Jack was born on 4 May 1957 at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Herston.[1] His parents, John Montague (known as Jack) and Hazel Evelyn Ford, were paying off their first home that was located at 30 Gatton Street, Mt. Gravatt. His 8-year-old sister Rhonda also lived there. This was a recent, 1950 war service home, as his father was eligible for such a home loan, due to his World War II service in the 9th Division (2nd A.I.F.).

The hilly, sloping Gatton Street was largely full of houses by 1957, These were a mixture of war service or state housing commission houses and private homes, some of which were being gradually built by the live-in owners. Gatton Street was unsealed and it had no curbing and channelling plus the large backyards all had ‘dunnies’. “Our outhouse was serviced each week by the Brisbane City Council’s nightsoil men, our Hawkwood Street pedestrian gate.” While this part of Brisbane is now defined as the suburb of Mt. Gravatt East, it was only known as Mt Gravatt during the period that Jack lived there (1957-1966). In 1963, Jack commenced Grade 1 at the closest Catholic convent school, which was St Munchin’s primary school at 1148 Cavendish Road. His family attended St Munchin’s for Sunday mass. Jack was baptised on 11 August 1957. There was no public transport service in this part of Mt. Gravatt, nor did his father have a car, so Mum and Jack would walk a considerable distance to get to school. They would cross Gatton Street to enter a short, dirt lane that led onto Nightingale Street that was also unsealed and without curbing and channelling. “We would walk the length of this street to enter Cavendish Road.”

As Cavendish Road was busy with traffic, the school crossing on each morning and afternoon was patrolled by the school’s teacher/nuns, who acted as ‘lollipop ladies’. His mother died on 26 April 1963 and she is buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Mt Gravatt Cemetery. After Mum’s death, Jack walked to and from school alone, as, by then, Rhonda was attending Holland Park state high school. Jack attended that Cavendish Road Catholic primary school from Grade 1 to the end of Grade 3 that is from 1963 to 1965. In 1965, construction began on a new, small high school (‘Seton College’) upslope from the primary school building and so the Cavendish Road primary school closed at the end of 1965. In 1966, all of the children, who were proceeding onto Grade 4, were transferred on-mass to the Carina Catholic primary school, located on a hillside, off Creek Road. They would assemble outside of the Cavendish Road Catholic Church and then board a school bus and be driven to Carina by the Irish parish priest. This was reversed after each school day ended.

Jack had very fond memories of the nuns from that Cavendish Road school. After his mother died, Jack became an easy target for bullies. One particular incident caused the nuns the act on his behalf. Two older children, who were brothers, lived at the top end of Nightingale Street, close to the laneway leading to Gatton Street and his home. One afternoon they attacked Jack, beat him up and forced him to drink water from a gutter outside their house. As these boys did not attend his school, they could not be disciplined by the nuns. Instead, an older boy, from St Munchin’s, was allotted the task of walking Jack home each day. As well the nuns presented Jack with a scapular medal to wear around his neck. It was made of green, wool, with a picture of Our Lady sewn onto the front, with the idea that the Virgin Mary would watch over him each day. A few weeks after Jack’s father died, on 23 May 1966, Jack was withdrawn from the Carina Catholic school and sent to Rockhampton, where Jack completed the remainder of Grade 4.

Jack only went to Rockhampton after his Dad died so  Denis, his lifelong friend, agreed he must have met Jack on the first day of term 2 of Grade 4. In later years Jack would tell people he went by Jack because no one could spell his real name. He said he had three degrees and they all had different spellings of ‘Jonathan’.

Jack said he remembered an interview with his principal and grandmother in Grade 10. They were both pressuring him to leave school but Jack knew he wanted to go on to Grade 12. Jack was assisted by Legacy who helped pay for his senior schooling.

Capricornia Institute of Advance Education Years

The years that Jack attended Capricornia Institute of Advance Education was when he first began to flourish. One reason was the long-life friends he made at the Institute. Another reason was his compassionate nature made him an excellent teacher in training. The bureaucrats in Education Queensland had other ideas, ones which were intellectually poor and empty of personalism, and so Jack like many of us in this room had a short-lived career as a teacher.

Figure 2: Ruth, Roz & Jack, Rockhampton, on 11 July 1981

Jack’s time at Capricornia fostered an intellectual curiosity which is denied by most Queenslanders. Jack had a deep need to take his education further.

Figure 3: Rockhampton CIAE Dip of Teaching 1975-78 or 1979 ‘products’. Dave, Jack & Denis

The University of Queensland Years

When Jack got a job at UQ student’s union as a welfare officer for postgraduates, he said he didn’t know what a postgrad was as Capricornia didn’t have them. Then he wanted to be a postgrad and do a Ph.D. He was told he wasn’t eligible to do a Ph.D. because his B.A. was from a regional campus. He asked to do Honours in History (2 subjects and a 5000-word thesis) but they said he’d have to do a Masters Qual (2 subjects and a 5000-word thesis).  This was like a red rag to a bull. He did a Masters Qual, started Masters, converted to a Ph.D. and the rest is history, if you’ll pardon the pun.

As the University’s Student Union Postgraduate organiser, Jack was responsible for the formed History Postgraduates Association and it had the luxury of a Postgraduate Students’ Common Room that was located on the top floor of the Gordon Greenwood Building; when Professor Ross Johnson was the Head of Department of History. The common room had been secured for the postgraduates, due to the lobbying efforts of Jack and Libby Connors, and the late Noel Quirke. Jack looked after the milk and coffee and purchased a jug, a microwave and groceries for that common room. A vending machine also provided postgraduates with funding for a room officially named, “Jack Ford Common Room”.

In his role as the Student Union Postgraduate organiser, Jack was also instrumental in lobbying for change at the national level. He was a central part of a campaign to introduce three months paid maternity leave in the Australian Postgraduate Awards or APA Scholarship conditions. This was an essential development in the late 80s and early 90s for women postgraduates. His Ph.D. buddy, Catherine Manathunga, was one of the women to benefit from this maternity leave when she had her second baby boy nine months into her full time Ph.D. studies.

The Ford Family

Brenda and Jack were married on 17 December 1988. Their lives together were rich and flourishing. Jack was marvellous ensuring the maintenance of a 1922 home in the Northgate avenue. He also took an amateur interest as an arborist, an abiding concern for the neighbour’s tree.  There were the professional family portraits and the bucket list, concerts, theatre, films like The Great Wall, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Churchill, Wonder Woman, Dunkirk and Thor Ragnarok, and the rest of the science fiction, 1970s rock music, the biannual UQ Alumni Bookfair, the New Year’s Eve parties, the Australian and international travel, the occasional street flooding, eye surgeries, history consultancies, birthday lunches with friends, visits to historical societies, centenaries and symposiums, illnesses, and friends popping over. These events were Jack’s life, and were events in Jack’s last days.

Figure 4: Brenda and Jack’s Wedding

Jack and Brenda’s daughter has always been a delight to her parents, and a great honour to Jack’s memory. Leela graduated with an Arts degree, majoring in Anthropology and French. Today, Leela is an anthropologist.

Figure 5: Leela’s UQ Graduation, 2017

Figure 6: Leela’s Christening, 1996

The final member of the family had been the cat, Lucy. The “feles”, Latin for cat, was another delight in Jack’s heart. Lucy died 2021 and was much later reincarnated as Sonja, a blue tabby, with “a big fluffy tail that shows that she has a bit of Persian too” as Jack had put it. It was a textual symbol or sign that Jack was the most compassionate person who one could ever have met.

Figure 7: Jack and Cats: Lucy, a friend’s cat, Sonya

The characteristics of Jack and his cats were very similar. Jack was a ‘soft’ Australian bloke, one who easily changed with the times, an era of Women’s rights and respect. He was no fool in the myth of Australian masculinity. Jack also knew when he could relax with a good book, and yet he was quick to defend, aggressively, his territory: the integrity of good history and truthful story telling.

Figure 8: Jack and Brenda’s Ford-Biggs Home

Home was important to Jack, and it required high-level skills to maintain his heritage house on a street that occasionally flooded. In the 2011 Flood his downstairs toilet and laundry was flooded four times until he obtained sandbags.[2] After being flooded the family decided it was time to do some home renovations. After eight years of drought followed by the five months of heavy rain caused the Ford’s 1950s era concrete back patio and front fence to dangerously subside. In March 2011 Jack had organised tradies to demolish both structures and build a new timber fence and an expanded timber deck.[3] The exterior of the house and the new fence was painted. The house was 90 years old in 2012 and the Ford Family kept finding other things that need repair too, for example, the load-bearing beam holding up the floorboards at the back of the house had been rotten and was replaced; and the rain had short-circuited the old back patio light and that had to be replaced and put into a new position to fit the new deck.

Figure 9: The Ford-Biggs Family in the 1990s

The years were also shared with friends with a love of Star Trek television and film series. It was a treasure trove of insights from the disciplines of history and anthropology for Jack and Leela. Brenda’s medical work had kept her busy on weekends, and gave Jack time for his model craft collection. The collection of different war memorabilia was a fantastic source of interest for visitors. It was not always about war. Jack treasured a model of St Mary’s Church Kangaroo Point.[4] The family was able to get away for weekends and family holidays, and enjoyed their Hervey Bay ‘beach house’.

Figure 10: Brenda Biggs and Jack Ford (the Klingon), and Neville (author) and Ruth Buch, 1997

Without realising the discipline of sociology, Jack had excellent sociological imagination, as C. Wright Mills put it. His arguments, even as aggressively affirmative, were nevertheless polite and respectful. He was always willing to move to common ground in conversations, even as he still firmly held his original arguments. Food and drink were always part of his generosity in this process of mutual learning.

Figure 11: The Ford-Biggs Family

Jack and the family were well-disposed to expose themselves to the bigger work. The European tour was particularly memorable. Jack was not an archetype, populist, Queenslander, even though on the surface he was often mistaken for this personality. Jack, while remaining his eccentric self, could deeply respect the continental European ways of thinking and living. This is evidence in the way the Australian-Dutch community returned the respect back to Jack. Jack had inherited and developed in nuanced ways a deep critique of British imperial ways of thinking. In the complexities of colonialism, it meant that Jack produced balanced histories of the Dutch in East Asia during and after World War II.

Figure 12: Brenda and Jack’s 31st Wedding Anniversary

In personal histories and world histories, Jack approached life in an openness that only a few professional historians can express well. However, the Australian historical world had greatly changed. Unfortunately, those who were opening up the new histories were marginalised by an establishment that was trapped in conventional thinking. Still, Jack and ‘his college,’ or in layman’s terms, ‘his crew’, continued to produce the better histories outside the universities.

The History Ten Years

In 1995 Jack was a linchpin in a group called the “History Ten”, ten Ph.Ds. in 1995 at The University of Queensland.  There was Jack, and seven other persons here today, and the late Noel Quirke and Ross Laurie to make ten. Over the years the group would meet annually for dinner, usually just after Christmas, and usually at Jack’s favourite Banyo Indian restaurant. The gatherings, though, would be sometime in the middle of the year, due to the busy lives that university academics and non-university scholars had.

The gatherings was also difficult for Jack to organise due to national and international relocations. In different years, Dr Manathunga and her partner Chris (2013-2017), and Dr Buch and his partner Ruth (1998-2008), moved to Melbourne.[5] Jack and Brenda entered the global digital age in email and then Zoom communications with friends afar.

Figure 13: History Ten, 2005, some of the ten with partners

Jack worked with all of us in consultation work.[6] For the author of this eulogy, among Jack’s work were several important presentations and papers for Brisbane Southside, most significantly:

• Yanks Driving Us to Distraction: Sunnybank District & Surrounds in World War II (1 April 2017).

Jack’s work in property histories for the Council covered both side of the river extensively. Although he was more expert for the Nundah-Northgate-Zillmere area, he never stopped learning on the whole-of-Brisbane history, and was at home in the mega-city. There was at least one story from Jack on every part of the metropolis.

Figure 14: Jack at the Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN) Meeting in 2018

Among Jack’s significant publications, and the statements of critical thought in histories were:

• Media, War and Memory, with Dr Phillip Cass, of Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology (19 September 2014);
• Opinion Piece: ANZAC Day and Anzackery, for the Professional Historians Association (PHA, 6 May 2015).

Jack was an excellent critical thinker and among the chastisements of the PHA was the claims of:[7]

• Convicts and/or Aborigines were hung from the sails of the Old Windmill on Wickham Terrace;
• The female convicts built the old Eagle Farm Road (now Kingsford Smith Drive) along the river to connect the main penal settlement in the C.B.D. area with the female prison at Eagle Farm;
• The World War II ‘Battle of Brisbane’ resulted in numerous deaths, including many United States personnel.

Jack’s criticism went the important details of the histories, often confused by professionals and amateurs alike. The criticism also went to how myth had often overtaken history for public imagination.[8] As said above, Jack had excellent sociological imagination.

Figure 15: Jack, and Brenda in costume

Dr Jack Ford was also known for his deeply engaged with the American Civil War research community and was a regular contributor to the American Civil War Round Table of Queensland journal The Bugle. The American Civil War Round Table of Australia formed in 1972, but the Queensland separate organisation was formed in 1998 by four fellows from Brisbane.[9] For the 2015 Round Table’s sesquicentenary, Jack curated a Queensland heritage trail of ACW veterans’ graves. Jack said he really enjoyed the reenactments in costumes. Jack dressed as a Confederate Army corporal, regularly at the annual History Alive event held on the June Queen’s Birthday weekend at Fort Lytton National Park.

Figure 16: Brenda and Jack, 2016

Jack enacted the role of a mid-nineteenth century warrior as demonstrating the history. But his heart of a warrior was synthesised history (à la Hegel), the Federation-Klingon Worf. His interest in war history was always about strategy and the human experience, it was never about harm and the killing. By understanding killing in war, Jack abhorred wars, particularly wars of our own times.

Figure 17: Jack at the ABC ANZAC Television Broadcast

From 2010 to 2015, Jack served as the on-air historian for the ABC-TV broadcast of Brisbane’s ANZAC Day March. Jack was one of three TV commentators, with the others being, David Kernow, who was the Queensland 7 PM news presenter in 2010; and Leo Walsh, who was a Vietnam War veteran and the Principal behind the Queensland Military Museum in Fortitude Valley. The telecast was made from a temporary, broadcast booth erected in Albert Street, across from the Queensland Governor’s Saluting Dias. In Jack’s own words, “Having a face fit for radio, Jack was a bit perturbed to be seen quite so often by the viewing public.” The ANZAC gig was not the only television broadcasting. On Sunday 29 May for Channel 7’s The Great South East had broadcast Jack’s Civil War club (American Civil War Round Table of Queensland) at the Belmont Rifle Range.[10]

Dr Jack Ford’s Intellectual Legacy

Jack’s leaves the educated thinkers a large legacy, but not so the fools. Jack, like the author, was not a professional historian who had tolerated fools. One prime example was the engagements at the “Unlocking the Past” Expo on 26 June 2012. Just before Jack delivered his talk a woman shouted out, “she didn’t know [why] she was there as she’d already lived through the War!”.[11] From that same event, Jack provided another person free research, but was ignored when he offered to do paid research. Jack had commented, at the time, “I will not undertake any further research for her! No wonder, so many professional historians are reluctant to undertake work for ‘genies’!”[12]

Jack shared with the author an outrage about the reduction in academic employment and to which many posts, emails and articles were written by them on this topic.[13] However, Jack’s main area of work was Australian and Dutch military history. A small part of the effort was Drs Buch, Overlack, and Ford’s collaborations on World War I.[14] They were in agreement that the two world wars should be seen as a singular historical line, beginning circa 1870, with the failure of the so-called ‘peace’ interregnum. Furthermore, the late twentieth century Cold War can be added to the line.

Figure 18: Drs Jack Ford, Dzavid Haveric, and Neville Buch

In Jack’s last days, he was helping his colleagues, and in particular Drs Dzavid Haveric and Peter Stanley, both military historians who elevated the thinking and life of soldiers rather than the national myth of war. Dr Peter Overland and the author have benefited from Jack’s assistance on the topic of World War I.

Figure 19: Mephisto, Jack, and Leela

Tanks was a favourite part of Jack’s war research, educating his daughter in the process of machinery. As a professional historian, he excelled at combining the techné and the capacity for good story-telling.

Figure 20: Jack’s 60^th Birthday

In the Australian idiom, Jack was a character. He broke convention as “a man of the people” and yet “a hidden intellectual.” Jack did not write intellectual history as such but his military and local histories was full of well-connected ideas.

Figure 21: Phil Cass and Jack in one of his classic poses, 2019

He was not afraid, with Phil Cass, to engage in unconventional insights of pop culture, challenging the stupidity of self-assuming authority which too often were undeservingly handed official authoritarian positions. Indeed, this is also why his military histories were profoundly insightful to historians outside of Jack’s own fields of study.

Figure 22: Jack and Phil Cass, Auckland, New Zealand

Jack Ford was a member of the Royal Queensland Historical Society and one of Queensland’s most respected historians. Over a career spanning more than four decades, he conducted in-depth research into World War II, Dutch–Australian wartime relations, the American Civil War, and Brisbane’s built heritage. His Ph.D. research, and 1996 publication, Allies in a Bind, on Dutch–Australian military relations during WWII had started in 1982 at the University of Queensland—remains a benchmark contribution in the field. The work made Jack an important World War II historian for Australia. Jack became a dedicated supporter of the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre (DACC) and the Camp Columbia Heritage Association (CCHA). When the Camp Columbia Heritage Association was established, Jack became an active participant, contributing artefacts to the exhibition at the MacArthur Museum in Brisbane.

In the days before his passing, Jack was preparing for the upcoming symposium on the Allied Co-operation in Brisbane during World War II, to be held at the University of Queensland in August 2025. Jack’s history work was never dry, as seen in the PowerPoint paper present by Jack and Phil Cass:  “Keto Dogs! The ANZAC Image In Commando comics”.

IN SUMMARY

Dr Jonathan (Jack) Ford was a Brisbane-based historian, with 41 years of experience, including 13 years with the Brisbane City Council’s (BCC) Heritage Unit. Jack was the sole author or chapter author to 13 books, 27 commissioned reports, 65 journal articles, 16 conference papers; the invited Guest Speaker to numerous and varied organisations; and he was often sought by the media for history interviews.

Jack Ford was a man of integrity. He achieved that integrity in research, write and publish on many persons’ life experiences. He profoundly owned an understanding of a wide range of cultures. He embraced social and cultural change. Jack highly valued education. He knew Brisbane, mostly, like the back-of-hand. What he did not know he easily took on as learning. He was a Queenslander, and yet never a conventional member of this state. He abhorred both warfare and authoritarianism, even as he was the excelling military historian and a well-performing worker of the state. For his good work, he was often denied opportunities by less-performing authoritarians. Jack was a true friend to his friends, human and feles alike. He believed a friend in need was a friend indeed. Jack found the joy of life all around him: in fiction, in travelling, in social relations, in thinking deeper, and in history.

Dr Jack Ford’s Bibliography

The following is from Dr Jack Ford’s CV which also included his full employment record, memberships, awards and grants. If the full CV is required for a specialist historian, please write to his biographer of this eulogy, Dr Neville Buch: [email protected]

BOOKS/CHAPTERS/HERITAGE TRAILS:

1. “THE FLOATING DUTCHMEN: THE DUTCH MERCHANT NAVY IN THE 1942/43 PAPUA CAMPAIGN” in Brisbane: Redcoats to Diggers – From Colonial Agitation to the Impact of War, B.H.G. Papers No.29, Chapter 4 (editor: Barry Shaw, Tingalpa: Brisbane History Group, 2024).
2. MARCHING TO THE TRAINS: the Chermside Army Camp Remembered, online version (Gaythorne: Queensland Family History Society, ANZAC Day 2022).
3. “Goin’ Native – Depictions of the First Peoples from ‘Down Under’” in Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in America and Australasia (editor: Prof. Frederick Aldama; Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020).
4. American Civil War Heritage Trail, Queensland, (Brisbane: American Civil War Round Table of Queensland Inc., 2016).
5. “Torpedo Hill – The U.S. Navy at Mt Coot-tha” in Brisbane and World War II, (Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 2015).
6. “Gladstone and Port Curtis” & “Rockhampton” in ‘A Most Promising Corps’ – Citizen Soldiers in Colonial Queensland 1860-1903 [ed. Geoff Ginn, Hilary Davies & Brian Rough], (Brisbane: Qld. Colonial Forces Study Group, 2010).
7. Marching to the Trains – the Chermside Army Camp Remembered, (Brisbane: J. Ford, 2006)
8. “Foreword” to The Cribb Island Story, (Brisbane: Nundah & Districts Historical Society, 2005).

9.“Banten Bay”, “Madoera Strait”, “New Guinea Campaign” & “Papua Campaign” in 9ncyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social and Military History, [ed. Dr. Spencer Tucker], (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004).

10.“United States Army Petroleum Warehouse” & “Nundah Fire Station” & “Toombul Shire Hall” in From Pioneering Days – Nundah, Northgate, Virginia, (Brisbane: Nundah & Districts Historical Society, 2002).

11. “Chindits” in World War II in the Pacific – An Encyclopedia [ed. Stanley Sandler], (New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 2001).

12 “Banyo Army Depot” and “Northgate Naval Stores” in Banyo-Nudgee Heritage Trail (Brisbane: Brisbane City Council, 2000).

13. Allies in a Bind (Loganholme: N.E.S.W.A., 1996 & reprinted 1997).

JOURNAL/ONLINE ARTICLES:

1. 1. “E.I. ARTEFACT FOUND IN QUEENSLAND” in DAAC NEWS How did a VOC canon end up in Maryborough – Dutch Australia Cultural Centre, 27 January 2025
2. Brisbane Timeline to commemorate the 80^th anniversary of the end of WWII in the Pacific, Camp Columbia Historical Association, 5 December 2024 in https://campcolumbia.com.au/brisbane-timeline-to-commemorate-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-wwii-in-the-pacific/.
3. “Historians at Work: Conference Papers” in HISTORIA the journal of the Professional Historians, Australia No.55, June 2024, pp. 3-4.
4. “On Anything That Floats: Naval Warfare in the Trans Mississippi Confederacy” in The Bugle – bimonthly journal of the American Civil War Round Table of Qld No.102, May-June 2024, pp. 9-14.

5.“Jack N. Philips Memorial ACW Library” in The Bugle – bimonthly journal of the American Civil War Round Table of Qld No.96, November/December 2022. pp 12-14

6. “Recollections of Archer Park Station and Rockhampton’s Other Stations” in THE RHSQ Bulletin, No.886, August 2022, pp.3-5.
7. “L. Ron Hubbard: World War II Brisbane’s first US Naval appointee” in Queensland History Journal Vol.25, No.1, May 2022, pp.71-86.
8. “Queensland’s ‘Furphy’ Tale” in The Bugle No.92, March/April 2022, pp.23-26.
9. “An Honorary Queensland Veteran: Brigadier William T. Bennett” in The Bugle – bimonthly journal of the American Civil War Round Table of Qld No.90, November/December 2021. pp 11-17.

10.“The American CWRT Queensland, Australia” in THE LIGHT POST: the CWRT CONGRESS (USA) newsletter 1 (4), August 2021, pp.1-2.

11. “On Anything That Floats: Naval Warfare in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy Part 1” in The Bugle No.88, July/August 2021, pp. 13-19.
12. “New Publication: Comics in the Americas and Australasia” in HISTORIA No.33, September 2020.
13. “May 1865: The War Drags On” in The Bugle No.83, July/August 2020, pp. 14-19.
14. “Queensland Reports the War: British Press Bias in an American War” in The Bugle No. 79, November/December 2019, pp. 19-23.
15. “Civil War Expressions Used Today” in The Bugle No. 77, July/August 2019, p. 4.
16. “The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down: Classic Ballad with Two Popular versions” in The Bugle No.77, July/August 2019, pp.5-7.
17. “How the Lead-up to War was Reported in Brisbane” in The Bugle No.71, March/April 2018, pp. 10-13.
18. “Historic Houses Association Tour of Brisbane” in PHA QLD E-BULLETIN, December 2017. pp.3-6.
19. “Civil War Era Gun Unearthed in Brisbane” in The Bugle No.69, November/December 2017, pp. 14-17.
20. “What are you waiting for, Diggers? -The ANZAC image in in Commando comics” in TEA KOA ROA Pacific Journalism Review, 23 (2), November 2017. pp.197-215.
21. “Our American Civil Veterans: Queensland cemeteries’ rare grave finds” in Queensland History Journal – The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 23, 6 (August 2017), pp 425-436.

22 “How War News Reached Brisbane Nearly 155 years Ago” in The Bugle No.66, March/April 2017, pp 26-28.

23. “ANZAC -mania” in Circa, The Journal of Professional Historians, Issue 5, 2016, pp.10-6.
24. “A Civil War Centenary Oddity” in The Bugle No.63, September/October 2016. p. 27.
25. “Did You Know? – Confederate Battle Flag at 1945 Okinawa Battle” in The Bugle No.61, May/June 2016, pp. 28-29.
26. “With A Little Help from Our Friends – Union veteran & Aussie Friedrich Nicholas Heilmann research” in The Bugle No.60, March/April 2016, pp. 15-18.
27. “When Did America’s War End?” in The Bugle, No.55, May/June 2015, pp. 14-17.
28. “Did You Know? the Henry repeating rifle” in The Bugle No.55, May/June 2015, pp. 17-19.
29. “Sesquicentenary of Brisbane’s LINCOLN ESTATE” in The Bugle No.55, May/June 2015, p. 19-21.

30 “Abe Lincoln’s Siblings” in The Bugle No.54, March/April 2015, pp. 13-14.

31. “Our television celebrity, Dr. Jack Ford” in PHAQ e-bulletin, May 2014.
32. “Australia’s Civil War Commemorative Coin” in The Bugle No.44, July/August 2013, p. 31.
33. “The Tale of Brisbane’s Stonewall Jackson Flag” in The Bugle No.43, May/June 2013, pp. 23-25.
34. “Sydney Radio Announcer and Civil War Collector, Ward Austin” in The Bugle No.39, September/October 2012, pp. 28-30.
35. “Kamahl’s Gettysburg Address” in The Bugle No.39, September/October 2012, p. 34.
36. “Brisbane Reports the Civil War 150 Years Ago: The Brisbane Courier 24 April 1862” in The Bugle No.38, July/August 2012, pp. 19-21.
37. “Brisbane Reports the War: The Brisbane Courier 7 April 1862” in The Bugle No.36, March/April 2012, pp. 15-17.
38. 38. “The Cartoon War -graphic novels” in The Bugle35, January/February 2021, pp. 13-14.
39. “Brisbane Reports the War 150 Years Ago: The Brisbane Courier 24 July 1861” in The Bugle No.32, July/August 2011, pp 8-10.
40. “Did You Know? – MARCH by Australian author Geraldine Brooks, in The Bugle No.31. May/June 2011, p.31.
41. “Did You Know? – General George Patton’s Civil War Ancestry” in The Bugle No.29, January/February 2011, p. 5.
42. “A Different War, But Still Southern!” in The Bugle No.27, September/October 2010, pp.13-14.
43. “More on the Story of C.S.S. VIRGINIA” in The Bugle No.26, July/August 2010, pp.10-11.
44. “C.S.S. VIRGINIA” in The Bugle No.25, May/June 2010, pp. 11-12.
45. “A Scene of River Life in The South” in The Bugle No.24, March/April 2010, p. 13.
46. “Moreton Bay Courier reports the Building of C.S.S. ATLANTA” in The Bugle No.23, February 2010, p 6-7.
47. “Diorama Wins People’s Choice Award” in The Bugle No.21, November/December 2009, pp.9-11.
48. 48. “Brisbane’s American Civil War Dioramas” in The Bugle19, July/August 2009. pp 7-8.
49. “Civil War Propaganda: The Brisbane Courier 10 April 1862” in The Bugle No.18, My/June 2009, pp 14-15.
50. 50. “The Shenandoah Furphy Cannon in Melbourne” in The Bugle17, March/April 2009, pp 1-3.
51. “Escape from Richmond: The Brisbane Courier 1864 issue” in The Bugle No.17, March/April 2009. pp 6-8.
52. “The Floating Dutchmen – the Netherlands Merchant Navy in the Pacific War” in Journal of Australian Naval History 6, 1 (March 2009), pp 79-99.
53. “Money of The Confederacy” in The Bugle No.16, January/February 2009, pp 2-4.
54. “Helen Keller’s Civil War Heritage” in The Bugle No.16. January/February 2009, p 9.
55. “Combat Fatigue and the Siege of Petersburg: The Brisbane Courier 8 October 1864” in The Bugle No.14, September/October 2008, pp 4-5.
56. “Local Civil War Veteran Honoured” in The Bugle No.6, 2007, pp 1-2.
57. “Death Notice for ex-Confederate Spy Belle Star: The Brisbane Courier 23 April 1889, in The Bugle No.5, November 2006, pp 7-8.
58. “Brisbane After the American Civil War”, in The Bugle No.4, October 2006, pp 7-8.

59 “The Recovery War: Cartoonist Patrick Cook reads Civil War books to recover from a tumor” in The Bugle No.2, 2006, p 7.

60. “American Civil War Down Under” in Broadsword Magazine, Issue 2, 2003 pp.15-19.
61. “The Forlorn Ally” in War and Society, 11, 1 (May 1993), pp.105-128.
62. 62. “Duping the Dutch” in World Review, 30, 2 (June 1991), pp.4-38.
63. “The Dutch Navy in the South-West Pacific Area March 1942 to August 1945” in The Navy, the Journal of the Navy League of Australia, 47, 4 (October 1985), pp.31-37.
64. “The First Japanese Air Raid on Broome” in Sabretache, the Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia, XXVI, 3 (July/September 1985), pp.14-18.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

1. SCARE TALES: stories of Australia & New Zealand Invaded!, “13^th Australian Media Traditions Conference”, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 21 September 2023, (co-author Dr Phil Cass).
2. The Floating Dutchmen: the Dutch Merchant Marine in the Papua Campaign. Brisbane History Group’s “LEST WE FORGET 1942” Milne Bay – Buna- Gona – Sanananda”, 10 September 2022.
3. Brisbane’s links to the American Civil War, Southside History Network Conference, Sunnybank Library, 27 October 2018.
4. “New Guinea Gold: Commando comics in the Pacific”, 8^th International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, University of Dunedin, Scotland, 27 June 2017. (co-author Dr. Phil Cass)

5.“KETO dogs!” The ANZAC Image in Commando comics, “Media, War and Memory” conference, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 19 September 2014, (co-author Dr. Phil Cass).

6. Brisbane’s Drive-in Theatres, “Cinema Going in Brisbane” symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, 30 September 2005.
7. Reel Heroes – Anzac Images in War Movies and Television, “Everyday Wonders Popular Culture: Past Present Future” conference, Brisbane, June 1997.
8. With Friends Like These – Australia and the Netherlands East Indies 1944-45, Queensland Studies Centre’s “War’s End” conference, Townsville, July 1995.
9. The Forlorn Ally – the Dutch Experience in 1942, Australian Historical Association conference, Canberra, September 1992.
10. Left in the Lurch: The A.B.D.A. Defence of the Netherlands East Indies 1941-42, Australian War Memorial’s “50th Anniversary History Conference”, Canberra, November 1991.
11. Australia and the Netherlands East Indies 1942-1945, Australian War Memorial’s “History Conference”, Work-in-Progress Session, Canberra, July 1990.

COMMISSIONED REPORTS:

1.The 1868 location ot the cottage of bootmaker Conrad Frederick Islaub on Main Street at Kangaroo Point for Noel Iszlaub of Maryborough, October 2024.

2. History of the property at 55 Ocean Street, Torquay in Hervey Bay for Jim McKay of PRD Reality, Torquay, 27 September 2022.
3. Brisbane’s Third Victoria Bridge, for Conrad Gargett architects, 27 July 2022.
4. Report on the WWI & WWII Service of Angus McSwain, for Ross McSwain, 31 January 2022.
5. Report on Warrant Officer, Second Class (WO2) Raymond (‘Ray’) Alexander Barnes, for Graham Mackenzie & the Geebung/Zillmere R.S.L. Club, 1 June 2020.
6. Significance Assessment Report on The Militaria Collection of the Queensland Military Historical Society, for the QMHS, 11 October 2019.
7. Report on the Development History of the site at No.29 Princess Street, Kangaroo Point, for June Laham, 29 April 2019.
8. Lawrence of Arabia power-point presentation to the Queensland Club, for John Armstrong, 1 November 2018.
9. A Brief History of the Queensland company: ‘TENTWORLD’, for Jon Burrell, 13 10April 2018.
10. Report on Military Records Sources on Patrick Joseph Murphy (2^nd A.I.F.), for Julie & John Davis, 21 January 2018.
11. Report: A Brief History of the Property located at 161 & 161a Underwood Rd, Eight Mile Plains (1883-1986) for Yvonne Johnson, 27 June 2017.
12. Report on a SELECTION of EVERTON PARK HERITAGE NAMES for the site at 38-52 Russell Street, Everton Park, Brisbane, for the TESSA Group, 20 February 2017.
13. The Dan Quinn Militaria Collection, for Peter Quinn, 7 March 2016.
14. The World War I Military Service of the MUNRO brothers of ‘Ross Roy’ at Indooroopilly, for St. Peter’s College, Indooroopilly, 1 February 2016.
15. Historical Report on the Former Newmarket Brickworks’ Cliff-face & Tree line, for Fibrecon, 4 November 2015; with Additional information on the Newmarket Brickworks’ Cliff-face & Tree line, sent to Fibrecon on 2 December 2015; & NEWMARKET BRICKWORKS: application to add the former brickwork’s cliff face and boundary tree-line to the existing state listing of the former Newmarket Brickworks’ Chimney (QHR 601357), 5 June 2016.
16. Ron Beer’s Service during World War II, for Erin Watson, 25 June 2015.
17. The Broadway Hotel’s Air Raid Shelter. 93 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, site assessment for David Carter – Architect, 26 February 2015.
18. The Yugoslavian & Croatian Army war service of Friderick Maduna 1941-45, for Michael Maduna, 3 December 2014.
19. 7^th Brigade Order of Battle 1915-2015, for Christian van den Bosch of 7^th Brigade Park Memorial project, Department of Defence, 14 November 2014.
20. A Brief History of the Boundary Hotel at West End, for Adam Hill, Boundary Hotel manager, 8 May 2014.

21 World War II places in Brisbane, for the Qld Government’s Queensland WWII Historic Places website [email protected], (co-author Brian Rough), 2011.  

22. Significance Assessment Report, Burnett War Memorial Museum Collection, Kingaroy, Queensland, for the National Library of Australia and the Burnett War Memorial Museum Association– 2009.
23. Brisbane CBD Master Plan Heritage Survey Vols. 1-5, for the BCC Heritage Unit – 2008.
24. A Brief History of the Site Occupied by the Australian Army’s Gona Barracks at Kelvin Grove, Queensland, for the Carson Group – 1998.
25. A Brief Military History of Geebung and Zillmere (co-authored with Dr Sue Keays) for the Brisbane City Council and the Geebung/Zillmere RSL, 1997.

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS:

1. “Brisbane’s 1^st Serbian Church Hall” plaque, Toowong Memorial Park, for Rada Milovanovic & Danica Eather, 31 August 2020.
2. “7^th Brigade Centenary Memorial” plinth, 7^th Brigade Park, Chermside, unveiled 12 September 2015.
3. “Bald Hills War Memorial”: 4 panels, John Stewart Park, Bald Hills, unveiled 27 September 2014.
4. “Chermside Cattle Dip” site signage for Northern Catchment Network Inc., unveiled 31 July 2011.
5. “7th Brigade Park” signage for Brisbane City Council Avenues of Honour project, unveiled 22 April 2009.
6. “Dutch & Netherlands East Indies WW II War Memorial”, unveiled 4 May 2004 (relocated to Roma St. Parklands, 2016).
7. Sign No.18 “Army Camps”, 7th Brigade Park, Chermside for BCC Mountains to Mangroves project, August 2000.
8. “Camp Columbia Memorial” The Dutch Club, Durack, unveiled 10 December 1995.

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS:

1. 1. “The Last Navigator”, Paul Goodwin, Circa, The Journal of Professional Historians, 17 August 2020.
2. Civil War Times February 2020 issue, The Bugle No.80, January/February 2020, pp. 11-13.
3. “Australian Confederates: how 42 Australians joined the Rebel Cause and fired the last shot in the American Civil War”, Terry Smythe, The Bugle, No.64, November/December 2015, pp. 18-20.
4. “No regrets in the evening of life”, Dr Neville Buch, phaq e-bulletin, March 2016, p.5.
5. 12 Years a Slave (film), The Bugle, No.51, September/October 2014, pp. 19-20.
6. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short film), The Bugle, No.47, January/February 2014, p. 24.
7. “Black Flower”, Howard Bahr, The Bugle, Issue No. 12, May/June 2008, p.5.

8.“Emergency and Confrontation – Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950-1966”, Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48, 3 (September 2002), pp. 464-465.

9. The Red Baron’s Last Flight”, Norman Franks and Alan Bennett, The Sunshine Coast Daily, 23 April 2000, p. 16.
10. “The Silent Men”, Peter Doran, The Sunshine Coast Daily, 23 April 2000, p.16.
11. “Going Solo”, Alan Stephens, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45, 3 (1999), p.425-426.
12. 12. “The Last CALL of the BUGLE”, Jack Gallaway, Sunshine Coast Daily, 13 June 1999, p. 5.
13. “Abolish the States!”, Rodney Hall, Sunshine Coast Daily, 15 February 1998, p. 28.
14. 14. “The War Diaries of Eddie Allan Stanton”, Hank Nelson, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 43, 3 (1997), pp. 447-448.
15. 15. “War and Television”, Bruce Cumings, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 43, 2 (1997), pp. 288-289.
16. 16. “ANZUS in Revision -changing defense features of Australia and New Zealand in the mid-1980s”, Lt Col Frank P. Donnini, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 43, 1 (1997), p.93.
17. 17. “Australian Brass- the career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson”, Jeffrey Grey, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 42, 1 (1996), p. 109.
18. 18. “Vietnam: the Australian Dilemma”, Terry Burstall, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 41, 1 (1995), pp. 145-146.
19. 19. “Those Ragged Bloody Heroes”, Peter Brune, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 39, 3 (1993), pp. 277-278.
20. 20. “Security and Defence”, Desmond Ball and Cath Downes, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 38, 3 (1992), pp. 492-493.
21. 21. “The Shadows Edge”, Alan Powell, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 37, 1, (1991), pp. 128-129.
22. “Men, Machines and War”, Ronald Haycock and Keith Neilson, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 36, 3, (1990), p. 494.
23. 23. “Troubled Days of Peace, Mountbatten and South-East Asia Command 1945-1946”, Peter Dennis, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 35, 3, (1989), pp. 119-120.
24. “Intermittent Diplomat”, Alan Rix, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 34, 3, (1989), pp. 464-465.
25. “The Shadows Edge”, Alan Powell, Sabretache, XXIX, 3, (July/September 1988), p. 45.

26.“Flight of Diamonds”, William Tyler, Sabretache, XXVIII, 3, July/September 1987, pp.41-2.

27. 27. “The Australians at Rabaul”, S.S. Mackenzie, The Express, 1 July 1987.
28. “The Pacific War”, John Costello, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 23, 2 (1986), pp. 319-320.

TV/RADIO PROGRAMS:

1. “Peregian Beach WWII artillery range today”, ABC Radio – Sunshine Coast, 6.42 a.m., 8 September 2020.
2. “$15 million ‘RUHAMAH’ at Hamilton for sale”, Channel 9 News, 6.35 p.m., 17 October 2016.
3. “Secret Australian WWII Interrogation Cells for Sale”, S.B.S. World News, 6.30 p.m., 14 August 2015.
4. “75^th Anniversary of the Story Bridge”, ABC news radio [Patrick Williams], 6.16 pm, 30 June 2015.
5. “Proposed Pinkenba WWI memorial”, ABC drive-time radio, 4 pm, 23 April 2015.
6. Commonwealth funding of Brisbane’s war graves restoration”, Channel 10 News, 6.35 am, 7 May 2013.
7. “Department of War Veterans opening tender for a caretaker for Brisbane’s 3,000 war graves”, 4BC Breakfast Show, 8.15 am, 7 May 2013.
8. “Weather effects on an Australian military campaign – Kokoda”, ABC TV News 24, Weather Quarter, 6.45 pm, 25 April 2013.
9. The Dutch Connection program on A.B.C. Radio: 1 October 1988 – We saw what war was about, interview; 8 October 1988 – Nasi Goreng for everybody.

EXHIBITIONS/DISPLAYS:

1. 1. Researching the History of Your House, at BCC Customer Service Centre, Brisbane Administration Building – May 2004.
2. Researching the History of Your House at “Aging Expo”, Australian Catholic University’s Banyo campus – 8 June 2004.
3. American Civil War 1862 camp life & artifacts display at Qld Living History Federation’s History Alive (2002-2016)
4. Mid-North District Plan – a brief history of the Bangee Festival area incorporating Banyo, Nudgee, Nudgee Beach and parts of Northgate and Virginia, poster produced for the BCC display at the Bangee Festival – May 2002 (poster donated to Banyo Library).
5. Australia and the American Civil War at UQ History Department – 1990.
6. One Man’s War – James Leslie O’Brien at UQ History Department – 1988.
7. Anzac Day & Leslie James O’Brien’s WWI service at UQ Central Library – 1986.
8. ANZAC Day memorabilia at Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education library, 25 April 1980.

GUEST LECTURER/SPEAKER:

1. We’re Still Here!: the WWII U.S,N, Stores at Northgate, Nundah & Districts Historical Society Inc., 3 November 2024.
2. Opening of the Dutch at WWII Camp Columbia exhibition by The Kingdom of the Netherlands Ambassador Her Excellency Mrs. Ardi Stoios-Braken, at the MacArthur Museum, 22 May 2024.
3. How We Commemorated the World War One Centenary of 2014-2018, Stafford Probus Club, 4 April 2024.

4.On Anything that Floats (Part 2): Naval Warfare in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy in 1863, ACWRTQ, 21 March 2024.

5. THE YANKS DID WHAT? Little known Tales of WWII Brisbane, Keperra Sanctuary, Brisbane, 20 April 2023.
6. INTERNATIONAL CITY – Brisbane’s Importance in World War II, Rotary Club of Stones Corner, 11 November 2019.

7 Our American Civil War Veterans: Queensland cemeteries’ rare grave finds, Nundah & Districts Historical Society of Qld., 6 May 2018.

8. Yanks Driving Us to Distraction – Sunnybank District & Surrounds in WWII, Sunnybank District History Group, 1 April 2017.
9. Our American Civil War Veterans: Queensland cemeteries’ rare grave finds, Royal Historical Society of Qld., 8 February 2017.
10. How we now commemorate the Great War – ANZACmania, Lions Medical Research Foundation/Bunya Lions Club, 26 April 2016.
11. How We Now Commemorate the Great War, Pine Rivers Heritage Museum, November 2015.
12. Being a Professional Historian in 2015, Mind Ventures “One-Day Program on Professional Historians”, University of Qld. Women’s College, 8 August 2015.
13. Brisbane’s Unknown WWII Sites to the S.N.A.F.U. Club, 19 May 2015.
14. Queensland and the American Civil War to the Capalaba Lions Club, 14 October 2014.
15. WWII Women’s military services site in Brisbane to the Brisbane Central Probus Club, Broncos Leagues Clubhouse, 20 August 2014.
16. War comes to Queensland for “Unlocking the Past Expo” held at the Centenary High School, 26 June 2012.
17. Tripping over concrete slabs: documenting Qld’s wartime heritage for John Oxley Library’s “Out of the Port” lecture series, held at the Qld State Library, 16 November 2011.
18. Researching the History of Your House to Windsor & Districts Historical Society, 15 August 2010.
19. World War II in the History of Mt. Coot-tha to Brisbane History Group, 19 June 2010.
20. Researching the History of Your House to BCC Central Library public talks, 7 September 2009.
21. The Heritage of Brisbane’s South-East Suburbs to Southern Suburbs Branch of the Genealogical Society of Queensland Inc, 20 October 2008.
22. Brisbane CBD’s Unknown Treasures to the Hamilton Local History Chat Group– 8 May 20072
23. Brisbane CBD’s Unknown Treasures to Nundah & Districts Historical Society, 26 January 2006.
24. The Dutch in Australia during World War II to civic reception for Lieutenant-General A.P.M. van Baal, Inspector-General of the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces at 80b George Street, Brisbane, 16 February 2005.
25. The History of Marchant Park to Marchant Park War Memorial Gates Rededication Ceremony, 30 August 2003.
26. Heritage Buildings in Geebung and Zillmere to the Geebung Probus Club, 16 November 2002.
27. 27. annual guest speaker, American Civil War Round Table of Qld Inc., 2001-2024.
28. Chermside Army Camp during World War Two to Chermside & Districts Historical Society, 1 October 2000.
29. 29. Awash with Yanks – Banyo, Nundah, Nudgee and Northgate during World War Two to Nundah & Districts Historical Society, 3 September 2000.
30. 30. The History of Chermside Army Camp to Bridgeman Downs Probus Club, 28 February 2000.
31. 31. Rediscovering Brisbane’s Military History to St Lucia East Probus Club, 19 November 1998.
32. The OPM & Irian Jaya to UQ History Department seminar, 21 November 1995.
33. 33. The Dutch Wartime Presence in Australia to Nundah & Districts Historical Society, 5 November 1995.
34. 34. The American Civil War for UQ History Department subject HS256: The United States Expansion and the Civil War 1800-1897, 1990.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS/TESTIMONIALS:

1. Haveric, Dzavid, A History of Muslims in the Australian Military from 1885 to 1945 (2024: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Tyne).
2. Dunn, Peter, oz at war website, “Netherlands East Indies Government in Exile in Australia during World War II” in http://www.ozatwar.com/neigovernment/nei in exile.htm , 2022.
3. Budde, Paul, “The Dutch at Camp Columbia 1944 to 1947” at Camp Columbia at Wacol – Dutch preparing for re-colonialisation – Paul Budde History, Philosophy, Culture, 2022,
4. Budde, Paul. “The Fall of the Netherlands East Indies March 1942”, DACC (Dutch Australian Cultural Centre) newsletter, 9 March 2022, 06.40 am.
5. Jones, Mark C.,“In Need of a Home Away from Home: The Royal Netherlands Navy in Australia”, 1942-1947, The Journal of Military History, No. 285, April 2021, (U.S. Society of Military History), pp. 399-425, footnotes 10, 51, 57, 59. 63, 68, 71, 80, 81.
6. Gapps, Dr. Stephen, A ‘mercy ship’ in a ‘black armada’ – The Oranje in Australia 1941 to 1945, 2019, Footnotes number 1, 2, 12, 14.
7. HISTORIC HOUSES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, HIRTY newsletter, Winter 2018, “HHA CITY TOURS: Tropical and Colonial- Brisbane Part 1 -23 July – 26 July.
8. Buch, Dr Neville, SETON COLLEGE HISTORY PROJECT report, 31 August 2017, Endnotes numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20.
9. Maynard, Roger, AMBON the truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit, (Sydney: Hachette, 2014) pp.18 & 306.
10. Mitchell, Lyris, The Soldiers’ Wall – a glimpse into their world, (Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2013), p. 264.
11. Klaebe, Helen, Sharing Stories: a social history of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, (Brisbane: Focus Publishing, 2006), p.120.
12. Allies in Adversity, Australian War Memorial exhibition 2006,

http://www.awm.gov.au/alliesinadversity/acknowledgements/index.asp

13. Mynott, Vicki, World War II Stories from Brisbane’s South West – Richlands, Darra, Wacol, Goodna and Oxley, (Brisbane: Richlands Inala & Suburbs History Group Inc, 2006), pp 162-63, 166-67, 169.
14. Brisbane City Council Heritage Unit, Your House has a history – keys to unlocking its past, (Brisbane: Brisbane City Council, 2004), p. i, 7, 25.
15. “Survey Helps Save Heritage” in The Independent 16 September 2004, p.1 & 9.
16. Hurst, Doug, The Fourth Ally – the Dutch forces in Australia in WWII, (Canberra: Doug Hurst, 2001), pp. vii, 79, 176.
17. International Biographical Centre, Dictionary of International Biography 28th Edition, (Cambridge: IBC, 2001.)
18. Marie Briggs-Koning, FOOTSTEPS IN MEMORIES and…, (Launceston: Marken, 1999), pp. 13, 40-41, 56, 63, 110, 147, 179, 181, 192, 193, 198, 292, 323-324.
19. Game Research Design (GRD), The Damned Die Hard – Rules of Play, (Grinnell, USA: GRD, 1999), p. 1.
20. International Biographical Centre, Who’s Who in Asia and the Pacific Nations 4th Edition, (Cambridge: IBC, 1999).
21. Marquis Who’s Who, Who’s Who in the World 15th Edition, (New Providence, USA: Paul Canning, 1997).
22. Bussemaker, Herman, “Australian-Dutch defence co-operation 1940-41”, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Issue 29, November 1996.
23. International Directory of Indonesianists (Second Edition) 1994.

24 Oliver Simmonson, Commonwealth Fraternisation Policy in Occupied Japan, M.A. thesis, University of Queensland, p. 32.

25. Edward Duyker, The Dutch in Australia (Melbourne: AE Press, 1987), pp. X, 91, 93.
26. William H. Tyler, Flight of Diamonds (Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 1987), p. 88.

REFEREE FOR JOURNALS:

Robert James Hamilton, “’Psychopaths, communists and criminals’: Brigadier Simpson and the internees of Tanah Merah”, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 24, (April 1994), pp. 20-25.

CITATIONS IN THE MEDIA:

1. “The Gap Probus Club”, THE Western Echo, August 2024, p. 18.
2. Hartley, Anna, Recycling helped Ken build his dream home from items destined for the dump on ABC News Radio, 17 January 2020.
3. History worth noting – WII gun emplacement on Heritage register” in Wynnum Herald, 18 July 2019, p.5.
4. “From disasters and plaques to celebrations: How Brisbane came to love its river’ in Brisbane Times, 16 November 2018, https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/from-disasters-and-plagues-to-celebrations-how-brisbane-came-to-love-its-river-20181115-p50gc4.html.

5.” HAA Interstate Tour Tropical and Colonial Brisbane” HISTORIC HOUSES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA members newsletter, Spring 2017, p.1.

6.”March down memory lane” in Northside Chronicle, 20 April 2016, p.8.

7.”Story Bridge to feature on new stamp”, Brisbane Times, 9 March 2016, at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/story-bridge-to-feature-on-new-stamp-20160309-gnew7l.html .

8.”Suburb’s History Stretches Back To WWII” in City South News, 24 December 2015, p.4.

”Our Heavenly Hidey-Holes” in The Sunday Mail, 31 August 2014, p.19.

9.“MacArthur and New Guinea” in The Courier Mail 14 February 2009.

10. “Surveys Helps Save Heritage”, The Independent, September 16 2004, pp. 9, 16.
11. “Did Britain and the United States let the Dutch East Indies down in World War II?”, The Bulletin, September 17 1996, p.48.
12. “Australia and the Dutch East Indies”, Dutch Courier, September 1996, p.11.
13. Book Review of Allies in a Bind”, Vetaffairs (Veteran Affairs newsletter), August 1996, p.2.
14. “Third midget sub mystery solved”, R.S.L. News (Queensland), August-October 1995, p.8.
15. 15. “Gus torpedoes sub mystery”, The Courier Mail, 19 July 1995, p.14.
16. “Interviews with Dutch finally solve mystery of submarine sinking”, University News (University of Queensland), No.408, 12 July 1995, p.6.

******

ENDNOTES

[1] Reproduced and Edited from Jack Ford, My Mt. Gravatt Childhood Memories by Dr Jonathan (Jack) Ford, Produced on 14 July 2017, emailed on 14 July 2017.

[2] Email. Jack Ford, Flood Damage, 26 January 2011.

[3] Email, Jack Ford, Hello.., 28 April 2011.

[4] Email, Jack Ford, the model of St Mary’s Church at Kangaroo Point, 31 October 2018.

[5] Emails, Catherine Manathunga, Chris and I are moving to Melbourne, 12 December 2012; and

[6] With Dr Neville Buch, Selected Emails:

Fw_ H-AHC_ Call for submissions.. Wednesday, 21 March 2012

forthcoming talk on the papers …Lincoln Library, Springfield Monday, 16 July 2012

Fw_ HISTORY Thursday, 13 September 2012

PHA – Qld Info – Brisbane History Resource Centre Saturday, 13 October 2012

eminent US historian coming to Brisbane Monday, 18 February 2013

Invitation – please forward to anyone else who maybe interested Sunday, 27 July 2014

Fw_ Australia – through the Eyes of a Visiting American Saturday, 16 August 2014

Hello from Brisbane, touching base Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Back to Work on Monday 23 January Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Announcing a New Release of Life in the Mapping Brisbane History Project Friday, 17 March 2017

THANK YOU Monday, 3 April 2017

Fw_ Re coffee Re_ Apologies and more apologies Re_ RSVP___ Sunday, 14 May 2017

Re_ Indooroopilly & District Historical Society , 14 June 2017 Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Nundah & Districts Historical Society Inc Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Fw_ HHA Brisbane Tour Sunday, 2 July 2017

HERE IT IS!!!!!!!! Saturday, 19 August 2017

Toowong History Group Saturday, 19 August 2017

1. & D. H. S Thursday, 1 March 2018

Fw_ Book Launch _ Mephisto_ Technology, War and Remembrance Invitation Tuesday, 3 July 2018

2018 Brisbane Southside History. Thursday, 13 September 2018

Fw_ Places visited by covid positive Wednesday, 29 July 2020

An Enquiry Tuesday, 19 January 2021

My American interview Tuesday, 3 August 2021

see you tomorrow evening! Thursday, 7 April 2022

Fw_ See your paper_s Citation Rank Friday, 14 October 2022

unbelievable, mate! Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Talking at the Toowong and Districts Historical Society Monday, 30 June 2025

[7] Other significant chastisement of the PHA was for an article in Circa, for myopia thinking. Email, Jack Ford, Re: Oh, Dr Magoo you’ve done it again! 13 July 2018.

[8] For example, Email, Jack Ford, Brisbane’s Urban Myths, 13 March 2014.

[9] Interview with Jack Ford, The American CWRT Queensland, Australia, The Light Post, August 2021, 1-2.

[10] Email, Jack Ford, Hello.., 28 April 2011.

[11] Email, Jack Ford, Happy Birthday!! 14 July 2012.

[12] ‘genies’ = those engaged in the hobby of family genealogy; not necessarily requiring research from the participant’s perspective.  Email, Jack Ford, Happy Birthday!! 14 July 2012.

[13] For example, Email, Jack Ford, hellooooooooooo, 31 March 2019.

[14] For example, Email. Neville Buch Summary of Australian Military System 1870-1919, 12 August 2013.

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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