Lewis Frederickson

About The Author

Lewis Frederickson serves in the Royal Australian Air Force and is a military-qualified Aviation Instructor. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in History, Literature, and Education, completing his PhD on Australia’s Great War experience at UNSW Canberra in 2015. A Visiting Fellow at UNSW, he has lectured in history, strategy, and politics and previously deployed to the Middle East. His grandfather served under McSharry in the 15th Battalion, making this book a personal tribute. His first book, Armageddon and Okra (2020), examined Australian air power in the Middle East. His second, After Anzac, based on his doctoral research, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Lewis lives in Canberra with his family and is currently studying philosophy at Oxford.

Books by Lewis Frederickson

Come On Australia

The Great War Service of Lieutenant Colonel Terence McSharry CMG DSO MC

By Lewis Frederickson and Victor Nurcombe

One man’s bravery. A generation’s legacy.

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Armageddon and OKRA

Australia's air operations in the Middle East a century apart

By Lewis Frederickson

Book #1

The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying...