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On Wednesday 18th of June 2025, Historian Dr Mark Johnston joined us at the Memorial to discuss the experiences of Australian servicemen at the front line in the last year of the Pacific campaigns.

Mark is an expert on the experience of Australian soldiers during the Second World War.

He is the author of 12 books, with two more due out in 2025. His publications include histories of the 6th, 7th and 9th Australian divisions, Whispering Death (a history of the Royal Australian Air Force in the Pacific) (2011), and An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division (2018). Most recently he edited Derrick VC in his own words (2021). He has written numerous articles and five booklets for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs series “Australians in the Pacific War”. He is currently Head of History and Classics at Scotch College, Melbourne.