

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Talk: The First Anzacs
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 18 Apr, 2026 at 12:30 pm (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us to hear the incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi combat engineers in WWI.About this EventJoin authors George Hulse and Jimmy Thomson as they tell the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians and New Zealanders to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out.They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 was an infantry officer. But Bean wasn't there, and a bunch of Australian and New Zealand army engineers were. Even today, the army is reluctant to accept that sappers were among the very first ANZACs ashore.This is the untold story of World War I Australian and New Zealand sappers—combat engineers—with extracts from their diaries. They were always in the vanguard, clearing defences, and building bridges, roads and walkways, usually under fire, for the troops who followed. At Gallipoli, strafed by machine guns and targeted by snipers, they dug trenches and tunnels to advance on the Turkish defences. On the Western Front, they burrowed under the German lines to plant massive explosives. In Egypt they demolished a Turkish railway in a day.From Gallipoli to the sands of the Middle East, to the blood-soaked battlefields of France and Belgium, engineers put down their tools to also fight as combat soldiers at every major battle and campaign, often with heroic feats of astonishing courage. Three sappers stole a giant field gun from under German noses at Amiens. Sappers were classic larrikins, indefatigably practical men who don't take kindly to bureaucracy. Typically under-appreciated, two were cheated of their well-earned VCs by a British general after they, working alone, tricked a German platoon into surrendering.About the AuthorsLieutenant Colonel George Hulse (Retd) OAM was a combat engineer, a 'Tunnel Rat' in the Vietnam War, and fought at Coral–Balmoral—Australia's largest battle in that war. He served with distinction in Malaysia, Kashmir and Papua New Guinea until his discharge in 1980. George went on to become a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve and published a book about Australian military working dogs, In Dogs We Trust. George has since had numerous volunteer roles including as Vice President of the Australian Defence Force Trackers and War Dogs Association. He also competes in Ironman Triathlon races.Jimmy Thomson has co-written three books about Australian sappers (with Colonel Sandy MacGregor): Tunnel Rats, A Sappers' War and Tunnel Rats versus the Taliban. A journalist for more than forty-five years, he has written true crime, sports biographies and military history. He writes crime fiction under the pen name James Dunbar and lives in Kings Cross, Sydney, with his wife and their cats.Copies of the books will be available for purchase and be signed by the authors.For more information on any Members events please email memberevents@sea.museumNot a Member ? Click here  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/397274a0-2536-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w484-h740-dceeebd8-gmir.jpg   https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/39a93c10-2536-11f1-886e-e3e40c802de8-rimg-w1111-h740-dca77c76-gmir.jpg   https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/39ebea60-2536-11f1-8500-4f0c3b0bf48e-rimg-w572-h740-dcded2c1-gmir.jpg
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Sydney
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum
- **lat**: -33.869509
- **long**: 151.19863699999996
- **full address**: The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Sydney, Australia

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