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Tag: WWI

Sep 7, 2022Sep 6, 2022HTBS

Highly Rated: The 1936 Tokyo Imperial University Eight

Aug 29, 2022Aug 28, 2022HTBS

Wioślarskie on the Web: Images of Rowing during the Second Polish Republic

Mar 19, 2022Mar 18, 2022HTBS

Ed Waugh’s New Play: “Wor Bella”

Dec 30, 2021Dec 29, 2021HTBS

Glasson’s “Young Rower”: Celebration or Exploitation?

Apr 25, 2021Apr 24, 2021HTBS

ANZAC Day: They Rowed to Glory

Mar 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021HTBS

Bernhard von Gaza: Olympian, Champion Sculler, Writer and Soldier

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

Percy Hansen: Valour Personified

Jan 6, 2021Jan 9, 2021HTBS

1914: Last in the Last Torpids Before the War

Dec 14, 2020Dec 13, 2020HTBS

In Living Colour

Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020HTBS

R.C. Sherriff: Soldier, Writer and Oarsman – Part II

Nov 30, 2020Dec 1, 2020HTBS

R.C. Sherriff: Soldier, Writer and Oarsman – Part I

Apr 25, 2020Apr 24, 2020HTBS

Sapper McDevitt – An ANZAC Rower

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020HTBS

WW1 Fighter Pilot, Colonial Administrator, Knight – and Rower!

Nov 4, 2019Nov 3, 2019HTBS

Bonza: The State Library of South Australia

Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019HTBS

F. S. Kelly: A Virtuoso at the Oars and the Piano

Jan 2, 2019Jan 2, 2019HTBS

Blackadder Goes Forth

Sep 19, 2017Sep 18, 2017HTBS

Up Suzhou Creek – A Brief History of The Shanghai Rowing Club – II

Sep 13, 2017Sep 13, 2017HTBS

Remembering My Great-Uncle – KIA 13 September 1917

May 11, 2015May 10, 2015HTBS

Anyone That You Know…..?

May 4, 2015May 4, 2015HTBS

More on the Oarsmen who fought at Gallipoli

Aug 12, 2014Aug 26, 2014Ellen

F.S. Kelly on the BBC

Mar 5, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

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