Bruce Topperwien's Military History Page

Bruce Topperwien's
Military History Page

Australians in a bayonet charge against a Turkish trench at Gallipoli, 1915

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Photographs of American Battlefields
Search the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site.
Search the Australian War Memorial Databases.
Australian Army Regiments Index.
Search Anthony Staunton's Military Medal register.
The Military Historical Society of Australia
The Military Photograph Museum and Registry.
The U-Boat Net is an amazing site, with details of every German U-Boat in World War 2
The War Times Journal.
Royal Australian Air Force.
Royal Australian Navy.
Desert Fox International.
First AIF Order of Battle 1914-1918
Web sites concerning Regiments and Corps of the Australian Army
Australians at War, an overview of Australian involvement in conflicts since colonial times.
The War Times Journal
An Internet History of The Great War
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Military History Links: an extensive list of sites
Military libraries
1805 Trafalgar Roll
40th Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Society
40th Regiment of Foot
Aces & Aircraft of WW1
American National Prisoner of War Museum
Armed Forces Photograph Museum and Registry of Australia
Army Museum of Western Australia
Australian 16th Battalions
Australian Light Horse Association
Australian Military History
Australian War Graves in South Africa
Australians in the Boer War
British Regiments
Essendon and the Boer War
First Queensland Regiment
Korean Conflict - USA Casualty List
Military History
Military Images
Military Sites on the Internet
Roll of Honour - Vietnam
Royal Hibernian Military School (1765 -1924)
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Second World War Experience Centre
British Light Infantry Regiments
T.F. Mills - British Military
The Great War
Trenches on the Web
Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page
US Military Service & Pension Records
US National Personnel Records Centre
Victoria Cross Site
Vietnam Conflict - USA Casualty Lists
WW1 Medals
American Civil War Page at the University of Tennesee

American Civil War Page at Washington College, MD

H-CivWar: the H-Net discussion list dealing with
the culture and history of the Civil War.

Veterans' Law

	The background image on this page is the headstone of the grave of Lieutenant Esson Thomas James Rule, son of William Rule and Ita Topperwien. As a Corporal, Esson landed with the first units of the 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, early in the morning of 25 April 1915. In 1916, he was promoted to Lieutenant and was transferred to the newly formed 50th Battalion. He was mortally wounded by machinegun fire leading a platoon during that battalion's successful attack on Noreuil on 2 April 1917. Esson is buried at the Australian Military Cemetery at Noreuil in France. Nearby is the grave of Private Lawrence Eglinton, also of the 50th Battalion. He was killed on 2 April 1917. Lawrence lost three other brothers in the Great War. Of Thomas and Elizabeth Eglinton's five sons who went to the Great War, only one returned--my wife's grandfather, Wilfred Eglinton.
Noreuil Australian Military Cemetery *These photographs at Noreuil were taken by Dr Roger Freeman, author of Hurcombe's Hungry Half Hundred, a memorial history of the 50th Battalion 1916-1919, 1991, Peacock Publications.*

Unveiling of the War Memorial at Burra, South Australia, by the Prime Minister, W M (Billy) Hughes, 1922.
Burra was Esson Rule's home town.

American Civil War

American Civil War Page at the University of Tennesee

American Civil War Page at Washington College, MD

H-CivWar: the H-Net discussion list dealing with
the culture and history of the Civil War.

Gettysburg

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