Borella's War : The Making of a Legend single work   biography  
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'On the battlefields of the First World War, Albert Borella suffered chronic dysentery, toothache and was seriously wounded a number of times. He would see training in Egypt and extensive military action in Gallipoli and on the Western Front. In 1918 he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour in the British Empire, for 'most conspicuous bravery in attack'. When the Northern Territory honours its Anzacs the name of Albert Chalmers-Borella is remembered with great pride as the 'only Northern Territorian to have received the Victoria  Cross'.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Northern Territory Historical Studies no. 27 2016 12381129 2016 periodical issue

    'History is a broad ranging discipline. It embraces themes concerning politics and policy on the local, national and international stage to themes pertaining to the personal and mundane – life stories of individuals; histories of homes and vernacular buildings; momentin-time events that have reframed individual lives. The five articles in this issue of Northern Territory Historical Studies represent some of the themes of historical enquiry, from a distinctly Northern Territory perspective.' (Editorial Introduction) 

         2016     pg. 47-64
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