Russell W. Stern Russell W. Stern i(A90617 works by) (a.k.a. Russell Stern)
Gender: Male
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1 Henry James Isaac Topal : A Soldier's Fascination with New Guinea Russell W. Stern , 2017 single work essay biography
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , vol. 23 no. 2 2017; (p. 300-315)

'For Australian Jewish History, the story of Henry Topal began when he traveled to Australia in 1914, the first of many trips that would take him across the globe and involve a life full of vicissitudes. When he arrived in Australia in 1914, and almost immediately applied for to join the Australian Infantry Force, Henry Topal claimed that he had spent two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps Militia and five years as a sick berth attendant with the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Canopus, including service in conjunction with the Messina earthquake in 1908 and then in Somaliland in 1909. He had been born in London on 9 January 1889 to Simon and Rebecca Topal of 16a Stepney Green Dwellings in the parish of Newtown, London. According to a letter that he wrote in 1925 to Dr Raphael Cilento, then Director Public Health in Rabaul, he had qualified and trained as a Sick Berth Attendant in the Royal Navy at the Haslar Naval Hospital in Portsmouth before commencing service in the Royal Navy...' (Introduction)

1 Untitled Russell W. Stern , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , June vol. 18 no. 1 2006; (p. 131-135)

— Review of Russian Anzacs in Australian History Elena Govor , 2005 single work non-fiction
1 Paul Cullen, Citizen and Soldier Russell W. Stern , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , June vol. 17 no. 4 2005; (p. 625-629)

— Review of Paul Cullen, Citizen and Soldier : the life and times of Major-General Paul Cullen AC, CBE, DSO and Bar, ED, FCA Kevin Baker , 2005 single work biography
1 Monash the Outsider Who Won a War Russell W. Stern , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , June vol. 17 no. 4 2005; (p. 623-625)

— Review of Monash : The Outsider Who Won a War : A Biography of Australia's Greatest Military Commander Roland Perry , 2004 single work biography
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