The Australian War Memorial’s official magazine Wartime has been in print since November 1997. The most recent issue, number 44, is a First World War Special Issue.
It includes a collection of articles on ‘Australia’s Worst 24 hours FROMELLES’ from ‘noted experts’ including:
Another brick in the wall by Nigel Steel
My quest to find ‘the missing’ by Lambis Englezos
The Battle of Fromelles by Ashley Ekins
Reflections on a battlefield by Peter Pedersen
Digging hallowed ground by Tony Pollard
The missing of Fromelles and Kriegsarchiv, Munich by Peter Barton
There is also a collection of articles on ‘END OF THE WAR’ including:
The last to fall by Peter Burness
A very different war by Meleah Ward
Armistice 1918 by Peter Hart
Age did weary them by Christina Spittel
They shot the horses – didn’t they? By Jean Bou
Single copies and subscriptions to Wartime can be ordered online from the Australian War Memorial. They can be posted anywhere in the world. Click here for details.
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The Families and Friends of the First AIF thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers – presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood – dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and urge those responsible to ensure all necessary scientific and other means are employed to properly identify each soldier.
