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Bernard de Broglio

Biography

Bernard de Broglio is a member of the Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians. He has a particular interest in the Aegean air war 1915–1918, and has walked and photographed the Allied and Ottoman aerodromes employed in the campaign.

In 2011, he mapped the location of Australian hospitals on Lemnos with Cheryl Ward, playwright and producer of ‘Through These Lines’, a theatrical production based on Anzac nurses’ letters and diaries.  Then-and-now photographs of the hospitals at Mudros were featured in Australian news media and exhibited in Australia and Greece.

Bern is also a member of the Gallipoli Association and contributes to their journal on topics as diverse as the  football tournament played at Helles for the Dardanelles Cup in 1915, Allied aircraft forced down at Suvla, French hospitals of the Gallipoli Campaign, and the experiences of a doctor with the Imperial German Navy’s machine-gun detachment.

Books by Bernard de Broglio

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Egypt Diary 1914–1915

By Alec Riley, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

A chronicle of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division’s eight months in Egypt before Gallipoli that reveals ordinary Britons’ experiences in an extraordinary land.

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Gallipoli Diary 1915

By Alec Riley, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

An authentic Gallipoli account, based on 1915 battlefield notes, supplemented by expert commentary and context.

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Netley Diary 1915–1916

By Alec Riley, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

Life in a great military hospital. “I was after all the experiences I could collect, and wanted to know what a great military hospital was like … I had to go to one, and decided on the grand style of doing it.”

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Lost Endeavour

By Charles Watkins, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

The Gallipoli Campaign is not short of operational histories, but few accounts get into the mind of the private soldier so successfully.

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In Chanak with the British Army

By P.J. Bothwell, Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

On the brink of war: An eyewitness account of the British garrison at Chanak during the Turkish-British stand-off of 1922, published under the pseudonym ‘Z’.

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