Colossus of the Goldfields

About the Author

Bob Marmion has had a lifelong interest in Australian military and police history, particularly the colonial era of the 19th century through to 1945. He was a member of the Victoria Police for fifteen years serving in both uniform and the Criminal Investigation Branch as a detective.

When he left the police force, Bob studied at university as a mature age student before eventually completing a PhD in Victorian military history at the University of Melbourne. In recent years he co-ordinated the Victorian Defences Project 1803-1945 which was a multi-disciplinary team of historians, archaeologists, engineers, mapping experts and the members of the public as they recorded Victoria’s military history.

Bob is the author of Murder at the Fort about two unsolved murders of soldiers based at Fort Queenscliff in 1942. He has also published a number of other books on Victorian military history including the military and social aspects of the central Victorian goldfields.

Bob has been a member of the Professional Historians Association of Victoria since 2008.

He has had a long association with Fort Queenscliff. He is the Secretary of the Fort Queenscliff Heritage Association Inc and is involved in the Fort’s heritage, education and training programs.

He is also the Secretary of the Headstone Project Victoria which aims to place headstones on the unmarked graves of veterans across the state.

He lives at Ocean Grove on the Bellarine Peninsula with his wife Silvia.