Photographs of Our Inaugural Annual Patron's Lecture - Saturday, 4 June 2022

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The Military History Society of New South Wales held its inaugural Annual Patron's Lecture at The Auditorium, Anzac Memorial Hyde Park, Sydney, on the morning of Saturday, 4 June 2022.

This is the first in a series of an annual lectures to be delivered by our Patron Major General the Honourable Justice Paul Brereton, AM, RFD. On this occasion Justice Brereton spoke on "War Crimes In Australian History: From the Boer War to Vietnam".

Following are some images of the event:

Justice Brereton at the podium

The opening slide

An attentive audience
Explaining a point

Asking a question

One of the slides

The President expresses thanks
His Honour keeps in his chambers a message given to his father (a wartime prosecutor
of Japanese war crimes) by a Japanese officer: "True heart is the core of everything"

The lecture concludes

Anzac Memorial Hyde Park

The Society's main website is here: www.militaryhistorynsw.com.au



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