Group Visit to the Australian Army Museum of Military Engineering at Holsworthy Barracks, Sunday 19 October 2025

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On Sunday, 19 October 2025 a party of Society members visited the magnificent Australian Army Museum of Military Engineering at Holsworthy Barracks in western Sydney. We were granted the privilege of a special guided tour which started off on the upper level along the visual Timeline wall which places events in chronological context from colonial to more recent times. Then we were given access to back-of-office storage and sorting areas containing hundreds of fascinating items from weapons, to uniforms, to maps, to instruments, to flags and to medals, all collected over the historical periods presented on the timeline. We then moved to the lower level where the Ubique Gallery displays many fascinating exhibits relating to wartime engineering across Australian military history. Finally we entered the Large Technology Gallery with its incredible fleet of military engineering vehicles adapted to a variety of battlefield purposes, like bulldozing, repair and maintenance, transport and mine-sweeping, in the course of different overseas commitments of the Australian Army. We thank our guide Warrant Officer David Moss and our own Society Council member Major (retd) Paul Handel, a former army engineer and volunteer worker at the Museum, for sharing their knowledge and passion. A visit to the Museum is highly recommended. Presented below is just a selection of the photographs taken on the day.
























































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