Department of Defence (1942 - )

Summary

The Department of Defence was established in 1942, having previously been known as the Department of Defence Co-ordination.

Related entries

Timeline

 1920 - 1976 Air Board
       1942 - Department of Defence

Published resources

Books

• Bassett, Jan, Guns and Brooches: Austalian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992), 271 pp. Details
• Cain, Frank, Arming the Nation: a History of Defence Science and Technology in Australia (Canberra: Australian Defence Studies Centre, 1999), 152 (160) pp. Details
• Cornish, A.; Stout, R.; Swan, K.; Glendinning, C., Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946: History of Major Meteorological Installations in Australia From 1945-1981: Four Years in the RAAF Meteorological Service: the Bureau of Meteorology in Papua and New Guinea in the 1950s, Metarch Papers No. 8 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1996). Details
• Gibbs, W. J., A Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service, Metarch Papers No. 7 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1995). Details
• Gurner, Colin M., The Royal Australian Army Medical Corps: 1945-1975 (Prahran East: 2003), 137 pp. Details
• Haldane, T., War History of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force April 1941 to July 1946, Metarch Papers No. 10 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1997). Details
• Hannay, K., Some Recollections of Service in the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and RAAF Meteorological Service: Mascot and Rose Bay (1938 to 1940): Sojourn in the Far East (1942), Metarch Papers No. 6 (Bureau of Meteorology, 1994). Details
• Jeppesen, J.C., Constant Care: the Royal Australian Navy Health Services, 1915-2002 (Loftus: Australian Military History, 2002), 336 pp. Details
• Joyce, John, The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service (Melbourne: Bureau of Meteorology, 1993), 119 pp. Details
• Madden, B. J., Hernia Bay: Sydney's Wartime Hospitals at Riverswood (Campsie (N.S.W.): Canterbury and District Historical Society, 2001), 208 pp. Details
• Mann, J. Y., Aeronautical Research Laboratory 1939-1989: 50 Years of Research and Development for Australia's Defence (Melbourne: Aeronautical Research Laboratory, 1989), 116 pp. Details
• Ollif, Lorna, Colonel Best and her soldiers: the story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (Hornsby, New South Wales: Ollif Publishing Company, 1985), 250 pp. Details
• Parnell, Neville M., Whispering Death: a history of the RAAF's Beaufighter squadrons (Sydney: Reed, 1980). Details
• Ross, A.T., Armed and Ready: the Industrial Development and Defence of Australia, 1900-1945 (Sydney: Turton & Armstrong, 1995), 452 pp. Details
• Smith, Dennis K., To Explore and Exploit the Unknown: a History of Defence Science at DSTO Maribyrnong 1922-2004 (Fishermans Bend: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 2005), 210 pp. Details
• Sweeney, Tony, Malaria frontline: Australian Army research during World War II (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2003), 354 pp. Details
• Tyquin, Michael, Little by Little: a Centenary History of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (Sydney: Australian Military History Publications, 2003), 684 pp. Details
• Tyquin, Michael B., Gallipoli: the Medical War: the Australian Army Medical Service in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1993), 304 pp. Details
• Wisdom, J. C., Forty Years of Army Design (Maribyrnong, Victoria: Engineering Development Establishment, 1979), 91 pp. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Farrands, J. L.; and Wisdom, J. C., 'Chapter 13: Defence Science and Technology' in Technology in Australia, 1788-1988: a condensed history of Australian technological innovation and adaptation during the first two hundred years, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, eds (Melbourne: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1988), https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/896.html. Details

Conference Papers

• Morton, Peter, 'Engaging with Leviathan: a Historian's Perspective on Using the Scientific Archives of the Department of Defence', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 51-56.. Details
• Noble, R., 'Sixty years of engineering in the RAAF', in The Royal Aeronautical Society, Australian Division, Melbourne Branch, Sir Lawrence Wackett Lecture (1980).. Details

Edited Books

• Goodman, Rupert ed., Our War Nurses: the History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, 1902-1988 (Brisbane: Boolarong Publications, 1988), 294 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Combe, Eric, 'Army Aviation History', Army Magazine, 2 (1989), 38-39. Details
• Dowsett, Michael, 'The Contribution of the Royal Australian Navy to the Development of Underwater Medicine in Australia', Health and History, 6 (2) (2004), 92-96. Details
• Finucane, Julie, 'Civilian Legacies of Military Nursing', Health and History, 6 (2) (2004), 97-110. Details
• Richards, R. J., 'Fit to Fight: from Butter to Bullets: Defence Food Science in Australia', Food Australia, 43 (9) (1991), 415-417. Details
• Rourke, William J., 'Warships for the Royal Australian Navy 1945-85', Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, 11 (4) (1985), 13-22. Details
• Sinnott, D. H., 'Defence Radar Development in Australia: 1939 to the Present', IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 20 (11) (2005), 27-31. Details
• Taylor, Jessica, 'War and the Professional: the Australian Army Veterinary Corps', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 24 (April) (1994), 26-33. Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458265. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Primary description of agency CA 2614; Army Design Establishment, Maribyrnong, Registration of enity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202614. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6154; Defence Research Centre [Scottsdale, Tasmania], Registration of entity: 16 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%206154. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2552; Defence Research/ (by 1956) Defence Standards Laboratories, Alexandria, New South Wales', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202552. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 3040; Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%203040. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 5199; Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%205199. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 5501; Advanced Engineering Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%205501. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6731; RAAF Headquarters Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU), Registration of entity: 16 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%206731. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 46: Department of Defence [III], Central Office. Registration of entity: 23 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%2046. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 5200; Weapons Research Laboratory, Defence Research Centre, Salisbury [South Australia], Registration of entity: 18 November 1986', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%205200. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2613; Army Engineering Agency. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, Aational Archives of Australia, 2001, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202613. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2798; Joint Tropical Trials Research Establishment/ (from 1988) Department of Defence [III], Materials Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Queensland. Registration of entity: 29 November 1978', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202798. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2556; Defence Standards Laboratories [Maribyrnong, Victoria]. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202556. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 4389; (from 1987) Maritime Systems Division/ (by Feb 1988) Defence Science and Technology Organisation/ (by Aug 1988) DSTO Sydney, Underwater Weapons and Countermeasure Systems Division/ (from 1992) DSTO Sydney, Marine Operations Division. Registration of entity: 24 December 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%204389. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6756; Surveillance Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury [South Australia]. Registration of entity: 13 January 1988.', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%206756. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 6758; Electronics Research Laboratory, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury [South Australia]. Registration of entity: 15 January 1988.', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%206758. Details
• 'Primary description of agency CA 2555; Defence Research and Industrial Laboratories (also known as Defence Research Laboratories, [Maribyrnong, Victoria]). Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202555. Details
• Cornish, A.; Stout, R.; Swan, K.; Glendinning, C., 'Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946: History of Major Meteorological Installations in Australia From 1945-1981: Four Years in the RAAF Meteorological Service: the Bureau of Meteorology in Papua and New Guinea in the 1950s', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0490.html. Details
• Gibbs, W. J., 'A Glimpse of the RAAF Meteorological Service', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0362.html. Details
• Haldane, T., 'War History of the Australian Meteorological Service in the Royal Australian Air Force April 1941 to July 1946', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0621.html. Details
• Hannay, K., 'Some Recollections of Service in the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and RAAF Meteorological Service: Mascot and Rose Bay (1938 to 1940): Sojourn in the Far East (1942)', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0339.html. Details
• Joyce, J., 'The Story of the RAAF Meteorological Service', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0203.html. Details

Reviews

• Cain, Frank, 'Arming the Nation: a History of Defence Science and Technology in Australia' (1999)
  Sherratt, Tim, Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (4), (2001), 538-539. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0011340521. Details
• Sweeney, Tony, Malaria Frontline: Australian Army Research during World War II (2003)
  Smith, F. B., Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (4), (2003), 549-550. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03010. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_d.html. Details
• Harris, K, '"Giving the Dope": Australian Army Nurse Anaesthetists during World War I', Australian Military Medicine, 12 (3) (2003), 138-143. Details
• Kenny, Catherine, Captives: Australian Army Nurses in Japanese Prison Camps (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1986). Details
• Martin, Ian, '"When Needs Must" - the Acceptance of Volunteer Aids in British and Australian Military Hospitals in World War I', Health and History, 4 (1) (2002), 88-98. Details
• Nelson, Siobhan and Rabach, Jennifer, 'Military Experience - the New Age of Australian Nursing & other Failures', Health and History, 4 (1) (2002), 79-87. Details
• Pearn, John, 'Civilian Legacies of Army Health', Health and History, 6 (2) (2004), 4-17. Details
• Reid, Brian, 'Malaria in the Nineteenth Century Military Settlements of the NorthernTerritory', in Australian Society of the History of Medicine, The Impact of the Past on the Present: Second National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine edited by Peter Winterton and Des Gurry (Perth: Australian Society of the History of Medicine, 1991), pp. 166-169.. Details
• Smithurst, B. A., 'Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture: Distinguished Australian Military Surgeons', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 59 (9) (1989), 731-741. Details
• Tyquin, Michael, Madness and the Military: the Australian Experience of the Great War (Loftus: Australian Military History Publications, 2006), 180 pp. Details
• Williamson, John, 'Civilian Legacies of Air Force Medicine', Health and History, 6 (2) (2004), 33-44. Details