I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History


The Admiral of Elwood: Commander Richard Stanley Veale CMG VRD** RANR

March 08, 2024

4-AUGUST-1914/4-SEPTEMBER-1939. While serving as a Naval Reservist, Midshipman Richard Stanley Veale ordered the first shot fired by British Forces in the First World War. Twenty years later while in command of the same shore battery that fired the first