The South West Pacific 1941- 45

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Includes Outbreak of war, fall of Singapore, loss of Rabaul, Kokoda Trail, Milne Bay, Buna, Lae and Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, Western New Britain, Markham Valley, Scarlet Beach, the Philippines.

Colonel E.G. Keogh began his military career in 1916 as a driver in 1st Australian Squadron and served in the Mesopotamia Campaign in World War 1. Commissioned in 24 Battalion, CMF, in 1924, he served with that unit until 1939, and then in various staff appointments in the Middle East and the South West Pacific in World War 2. He was Editor of the Australian Army Journal from 1948 until his retirement in December 1964. He has written several campaign studies which have been taken into use as official text books for the study of military history in the Australian Army.