Tag: Mediterranean

Southern Cross Over Malta: Australian Fighter Pilots in the Battle for the Mediterranean

Southern Cross Over Malta: Australian Fighter Pilots in the Battle for the Mediterranean

by | Apr 23, 2024 | | 0

Reading time: 10 minutes
For three long years, as Britain and her allies first clung to survival and then clawed victory out of the face of overwhelming odds, a single island held out hope in the Mediterranean. Malta, just 17 miles long and 9 miles wide, with its neighboring island of Gozo had long stood as a fortress in the sea for whoever could hold it. Over the centuries, Malta had withstood Moorish, Turkish, and French sieges and fallen under a variety of civilisations dating back thousands of years.

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The Scrap Iron Captain: Hector Waller DSO and Bar – Podcast

The Scrap Iron Captain: Hector Waller DSO and Bar – Podcast

by | Oct 28, 2022 | | 0

While serving within the Royal Australian Navy as a Signals Officer, Captain Hector MacDonald Laws Waller served with distinction aboard several warships of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy during both the First World War and the Second World War. Having graduated from the fledgling Royal Australian Naval College during the First World War, his posting would be to the Royal Navy Battleship HMS Agincourt, and would predominately perform escort duties for the duration of the war.

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