Neville Browning
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Neville Browning is one of Australia’s foremost Military Historians, specialising in Australia in World War 1.
- Recipient of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Australia Day Honours for ‘Services to the Preservation of Australian Military History.’
- Twice nominated for Western Australian of the Year.
Neville has a keen interest in the local community, running free services in displays and lectures on Western Australians on the Western Front in World War 1.
He has proof-read and edited several military books published by local authors, a free service.
Has been writing and publishing Australian Army unit histories for twenty-five years.
His latest book is Bayonets and Barbed Wire, 16th Battalion AIF in World War 1.
The book launch packed Perth Town Hall in November 2022.
Neville’s Battalion History publications (all published locally in Western Australia) are:
- The 45th Battalion - due for publication 2025
- Bayonets & Barbed Wire – 16th Battalion AIF
- Anzac Pioneers – 2nd Pioneer Battalion AIF
- The Green and White Diamond - 20th Battalion AIF
- Fromelles to Nauroy - 31st Battalion AIF
- Leane's Battalion - 48th Battalion AIF
- For King and Cobbers – 51st Battalion AIF
- The 52nd Battalion
- The Westralian Battalion - 44th Battalion AIF
- The Blue & White Diamond - 28th Battalion AIF
- Gallipoli to Tripoli (co-authored with I Gill) – 10th Light Horse Regiment AIF
Neville's next project will be history of the 34th Battalion AIF
With my expertise in the Australian participation on the Western Front, I work as a guide in the Kokoda Treks and Tours team – we do tours to the Western Front, which encompass the Australian Army experience from Fromelles, Pozieres, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Dernancourt, Villers-Bretonneux, Amiens, Mont St Quentin and the Hindenberg Line with detailed informative commentary.
If you woud like to purachse Neville's book 'Bayonets and Barbed Wire' you can download a PDF order form here.
Neville has also produced an interesting article on the involvement of Australian forces on the Western Front during Word War One, called 'Western Australia in World War One - An Australian Perspective' which you can read here.
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