Wartime 78 - Autumn 2017

Wartime Issue 78 cover

Middle East Conflicts

Featured articles:

  • Serving honourably in Iraq by Marcus Fielding. Australia made a significant contribution to the controversial war.
  • Make Mosul great again by Stephanie Boyle. Memorial curators spent time among Australian forces and discovered tales of Taji and Iraq.
  • Collecting history as it happens by Emma Campbell. Three Memorial curators recently visited Australian forces in Iraq.
  • Airworthy again by Laura Kennedy and Jamie Croker. The intensive restoration of the Memorial’s Lockhead Hudson.
  • Why war art speaks to us by Scott Bevan. Artists of the Second World War captured the incredible events happening around them.
  • A tale of two tanks by Meleah Hampton. Mephisto was not the first tank to cause a stir on arrival in Australia: meet Grit.
  • A glimpse of horror by David Gist. An anonymous X-ray from the Western Front reveals the brutality of war.
  • Alone in the ruins by Anne-Marie Conde. Charles Bean captured a poignant reminder of the effect of war in France.
  • Arab in the Fjord by Chris Goddard. A young Australian sailor played a key role in a desperate naval action in Norway.
  • The Last Post: Lance Corporal Sydney Cooper.
  • Plus regular features, including Reflections, Mail Call, and book reviews.

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In this issue

Australian soldiers inspect Mephisto, a German A7V tank

A Tale of Two Tanks

Mephisto was not the first tank to cause a stir on arrival in Australia.

By Meleah Hampton

First World War 1914 - 1918
Members of No. 3 Squadron with one of the parachutes for dropping ammunition.

Dropping in at Hamel

An innovation at the Battle of Hamel was created by an Australian aircraft-industry pioneer.

By Di Rutherford

First World War 1914 - 1918
An old Frenchwoman at the entrance to her brick house, Villers-Bretonneux

Alone in the Ruins

After the battle, war correspondent Charles Bean found an elderly woman alone in the ruins.

First World War 1914 - 1918