Publications/awards
2023, December
Awarded Master of Arts in History, University of Birmingham. My dissertation The Impact of the Great Famine 1314-1318 on the manor of Downton, Wiltshire is available for free download HERE.
2023, May
The City Horse: London’s militia cavalry during the English Civil War, 1642-1660
2021, September
The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660
Volume 2: War in Jamaica
This is the second of two volumes about the English invasion of the West Indies to be published by Helion and Co.
2021, April
The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660
Volume 1: War in the West Indies
This is the first of two volumes about the English invasion of the West Indies to be published by Helion and Co. The second volume should be published at the end of 2021.
2018, March
‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’
Published in the Military History Association of Australia journal Sabretache.
2017, November
What happened to 1/5 South Lancashire Regiment at the Battle of Villers-Guislain on 30 November 1917?
2017, October
‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’
2017, July
47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Casualties at the Battle of Messines 7–12 June 1917
The Western Front Association Stand To! No. 109
2017, June
The Casualty Evacuation Scheme, Battle of Messines 7-12 June 1917
http://www.pshistory.com/articles/casualty-evacuation-scheme-battle-of-messines-7-june-1917/
2017, April
The fate of D Company, 18th Durham Light Infantry, 1 July 1916
http://www.pshistory.com/articles/d-company-18th-durham-light-infantry-battle-of-serre-1-july-1916/
2015, September
The Origins of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement
Sabretach, Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia
http://www.pshistory.com/articles/beerburrum/
2012, September
Captain Walter Aland Leslie
Digger, the Magazine of the Families and Friends of the First AIF, Inc
http://www.pshistory.com/download/walter-aland-leslie/
1991, October
Cromwell’s Jamaica Campaign: The Attack on the West Indies, 1654-55
Partizan Press, ISBN 094652579X
1987, November
The Kent Trained Bands & First Scots War, 1639
English Civil War Notes & Queries, November 1987
http://www.pshistory.com/articles/english-civil-war/the-kent-trained-bands-the-first-scots-war-1639/
1987, October
The Anglo-French Campaign,1657-58
English Civil War Notes & Queries, October 1987
http://www.pshistory.com/articles/english-civil-war/the-english-campaign-in-flanders-1657-58/
Presentations
2022, June
Presentation on the Aysgarth Manuscripts in the possession of the Abbey Museum, Caboolture, Queensland given at the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, North Yorkshire, England.
2019, April
Interview concerning the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement on ABC Sunshine Coast and ABC Queensland. Click link below to hear the interview:
Beerburrum Soldier Settlement interview
2018, November
The Hundred Days: Australia’s role in the end of the Great War.
Presentation given to Stafford Probus meeting.
2018, April
Co-host on ABC Sunshine Coast radio ANZAC Day coverage.
A recording can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/abc-sunshine-coast/anzac-day-2018-on-abc-sunshine-coast
My parts are at minutes 1,6,13,23,27,42 and 55.
2018, April
Beerburrum State School: The early years.
A talk on the origins and early years of the Beerburrum State School to be given on the Centenary Day of the founding of the school on 22 April 2018.
2017, November
‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’
A paper to be presented at the joint University of South Australia’s ‘Narratives of War’ symposium and the Military Historical Society of Australia National Biennial Conference, City West Campus, Adelaide 17-19 November 2017.
2017, July
‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’
Queensland Family History Society Library and Resource Centre.
2017, July
’47th Battalion, AIF and the Medical Evacuation Scheme, Battle of Messines 7-12 June 1917′
Queensland branch of the Military History Society of Australia.
2017, April
‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’
Sunshine Coast Historical and Genealogical Resource Centre Inc
2017, April
Co-host Breakfast Show on ANZAC Day
ABC Sunshine Coast Radio
2017, February
‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’
Caloundra Family History Research Group
2016, November
Beerburrum Soldier Settlement Centenary event, hosted and presented by myself.
2015, April
‘Gallipoli’
‘Where the Australians Fought’
‘Casualty Evacuation Process’
‘Beerburrum Soldier Settlement’
Presented at the Adopt a Digger ANZAC Centenary Exhibition, Buderim, Queensland.
2014, April
‘The origins of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement’
Paper presented to Military Historical Society of Australia national conference, Maryborough, Queensland.