Australia Under Attack
The Bombing of Darwin - 1942
$45.94
- Hardcover
204 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2013
Summary
2022 marks 80 years since Australia faced an unprecedented foreign attack on home soil.
Author Douglas Lockwood was an Australian newspaperman and author. Born in Natimuk, 25 kilometres west of Horsham in Victoria’s Wimmera district, Lockwood left school at 12 to help run his father’s newspaper, the weekly West Wimmera Mail, at the height of the Great Depression.
With his father’s blessing he left home at 16 and worked as a reporter on rural Victorian papers in Camperdown, Tat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742574042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742574041 |
| Author: | Douglas Lockwood |
| Publisher: | New Holland Publishers |
| Imprint: | New Holland Publishers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 883g |
| Dimensions: | 268mm x 208mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Douglas Lockwood
Douglas Wright Lockwood (1918-1980), journalist, soldier and author, was born on 9 July 1918 at Natimuk, Victoria, second child of native-born parents Alfred Wright Lockwood, journalist, and his second wife Ida Dorothea, née Klowss, daughter of a German immigrant. Alfred had four children by a previous marriage. Educated at Natimuk State School, Douglas worked on his father’s newspaper, the West Wimmera Mail, and on newspapers at Camperdown, Tatura and Mildura.
In 1941 Lockwood joined the Melbourne Herald. On 4 October that year at the Methodist Church, Wangaratta, he married Ruth Hay, a clerk. Soon afterwards he was sent to Darwin and in February 1942 saw the first enemy bombs fall on Australian soil. Enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force on 15 June, he trained in intelligence and security duties. He served in New Guinea and on Bougainville in 1944-45 with ‘V’ and ‘Z’ Field Security sections, and was promoted warrant officer. Following his discharge on 15 June 1945 in Melbourne, he was a war correspondent for the Herald, reporting from the Netherlands East Indies. In 1946 he returned to Darwin and, except for postings to the Herald’s Melbourne (1947-48) and London (1954-56) offices, was to remain there until 1968.
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