Saturday, October 11, 2025
Latest:
  • Experimentation and the Australian Army: What’s Going on?
  • Three generations of military service
  • New advanced attack helicopters land
  • Countries’ forces combine for jungle assault
  • A Battle Laboratory AND a Combat Experimentation Group – why? 

CONTACT magazine

Australia's best free military news site

  • NEWS
  • Poetry
  • Podcasts
  • Fitness
  • Videos
  • Archives
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • Write to us
CONTACT magazine

Royal Australian Navy Band

Able Seaman Francis Piccin, of the Royal Australian Navy Band, Sydney, at Amiens Cathedral in France. Story by Captain Katy Manning. Photos by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.
ADF People History Lest We Forget Royal Australian Navy 

One song unites two worlds

29/04/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1014 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, France, Royal Australian Navy Band

As the last notes echoed through Amiens Cathedral in France, Musician Able Seaman Francis Piccin stood with quiet pride, his

Read more
Then Leading Seaman Marcus Salone plays the Last Post during a memorial service at the Bathurst War Memorial in 2016. Photo by Able Seaman Nicolas Gonzalez.
ADF People 

Talking the language of music over many seas

29/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1416 Views 0 Comments Royal Australian Navy Band

Living in New York City and playing Latin music with Puerto Rican and Dominican bands, Sub-Lieutenant Marcus Salone knows how

Read more

Hours more reading…

OUR SUPPORTERS…