{"id":268,"date":"2020-05-07T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:00:44","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/the-jardine-gun\/\">The Jardine gun<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-11T21:49:56+10:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 11, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">A bronze swivel gun in the Queensland Maritime Museum (QMM) collection could be all that survives of the HMS Rattlesnake, commissioned in 1846 to chart the shoals of the Barrier Reef and create the first detailed charts of the Papua and New Guinea coasts. Europe&#8217;s maritime exploration of Australia effectively began in 1606 when the &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/the-jardine-gun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Jardine gun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/rockhamptons-war-trophies\/\">Rockhampton&#8217;s war trophies<\/a><time datetime=\"2021-07-25T13:03:26+10:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">July 25, 2021<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">First published in 2014 by Dell Dallach, this image (above) notionally depicts her uncle William Holland in Rockhampton\u2019s Victoria Park. Taken some time between 1938 and 1960, it also features \u2013 in the background &#8211; one of the three large-calibre German guns gifted to the city in 1922 by the Queensland War Trophies Committee.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/souvenir-of-a-souvenir\/\">Souvenir of a souvenir<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-05-11T23:32:20+10:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 11, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The Battle of Amiens which began on 8 August 1918 in north-western France is considered the greatest allied victory of the First World War, an action that ultimately led to Germany\u2019s surrender three months later. British, Australian and Canadian ground forces advanced over 11 kilometres on that first day (one of the greatest advances of &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/souvenir-of-a-souvenir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Souvenir of a souvenir&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/the-price-of-honour\/\">The price of honour<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-05-08T11:10:41+10:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 8, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When in 1921 the Queensland War Trophy Committee (QWTC) ruled that Boonah was ineligible to receive a captured field gun, the town\u2019s citizenry resolved to try and independently secure one of these trophies by whatever means.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/28\/best-forgotton\/\">Best Forgotton<\/a><time datetime=\"2019-10-28T18:57:20+10:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 28, 2019<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In a locked cabinet within a darkened storeroom, deep within the Queensland Museum there is a well worn Mauser M96 rifle with the name \u2018P J A Heiberg\u2019 crudely carved into its wooden stock. On the other side of the world, in a small-town cemetery in regional South Africa, there\u2019s a nondescript grave marker similarly &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/28\/best-forgotton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Forgotton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wp-image-borders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.anzacwartrophies.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}