The forgotten rising sons : the true story behind the worst training accident in the history of the Australian Army, and how, for fifty years, an entire nation forgot it ever happened / Andrew Johnston
- Bib ID:
- 7049217
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnston, Andrew, 1967-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite until 01 January 9999 at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- West Geelong, Victoria : Echo Books, 2014
- 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits, photographs.
- ISBN:
- 9780992530198
- Summary:
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The Forgotten Rising Sons is an incredible true story based largely on the unknown tragic events which took place at the Royal Australian Engineer Training Centre (RAETC)-'Kapooka Camp', located nine miles from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia on Monday the 21st of May 1945. On that fateful day, without warning, a single blinding flash of highly explosive gelignite violently detonated in an underground training bunker. In less than a second, 26 of Australia's promising young soldiers were killed.
- Notes:
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- Barrallier Books Pty Ltd trading as Echo Books.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Australia. Army. Royal Australian Engineers. Training Centre -- History
- Australia. Australian Army. Royal Australian Engineers. Training Centre -- History
- Explosives, Military -- Accidents -- New South Wales -- Kapooka
- Military education -- Accidents -- New South Wales -- Kapooka
- Military engineers -- Accidents -- New South Wales -- Kapooka
- Military training camps -- New South Wales -- Kapooka
- Australia -- History -- 1939-1945
- Kapooka (N.S.W.) -- History, Military
- Australian
- Available From:
- 40 Barrallier Street, Griffith ACT 2603
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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