Tony Cunneen

Biography

Tony Cunneen is the Senior Studies Coordinator and teaches English and History at St Pius X College Chatswood. He has written two books, Beecroft and Cheltenham in World War One and Suburban Boys at War, as well as numerous articles on history, education and travel. He is currently researching the experiences of the New South Wales legal profession in the First World War as a project for the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History.

Contributions

Title	Date Published
Slaughter of the Innocents: The Destruction of the 18th Battalion at Gallipoli, August 1915	5 Feb 2025

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