Our guest speaker this month was Lieutenant Colonel Ron Lyons RFD (Ret’d). Ron is a retired Australian Army Reserve officer with thirty-seven years of service as an infantry soldier and officer. Ron presented “Sydney at War 1942” and looked at the defence of Sydney in World War II.

Sydney on the outbreak of War; Sydney’s “Phoney” War; why Sydney was strategically important; the Japanese threat; Sydney’s defences including the local area; the defences tested – May 1942; and the aftermath at and following the end of the War.