Wartime 85 - Summer 2019

Wartime Issue 85 cover

Aftermath of war

Featured articles:

  • Feeding the troops on victory by Aaron Pegram. More than half of Australia's Victoria Crosses were awarded on the Western Front.
  • The art of war by Mark Whitmore. Landscape artist Arthur Streeton had a keen eye for painting technology and its use in war.
  • Bringing the boys home by Meleah Hampton. The end of the First World War meant that a huge and complicated task had to begin.
  • Casualties of war by Craig Tibbits. Medical legacies could persist for a lifetime.
  • William Murray and the Coniston Massacre by Thomas James Rogers. A returned soldier's frontier crimes.
  • "Conditions rotten" by Lachlan Grant and Garth O'Connell. Stories of Indigenous Australian prisoners in the Second World War are emerging.
  • Meet Walter Steilberg by Philippa Scarlett. The man who never gave up.
  • Down the Buin Road by Karl James. Sweat, mud, fatigue, stress, fear, and constant patrolling: such was the Australian infantrymen's war on Bougainville in 1945.
  • Coastal sacrifice by David Sutton. Fatalities in Coastal Command during the Second World War.
  • Australians in Coastal Command by Jessica Urwin. The Luftwaffe were not the only enemy.
  • Instant Messaging, 100 years ago by Shane Casey
  • Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, and The Last Post.

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In this issue

Australian soldier crouches on the ground with a Bren light machine gun

Down the Buin Road

Sweat, mud, fatigue, stress, fear and constant patrolling in Bougainville, 1945.

By Dr Karl James

Second World War 1939 - 1945
Nurses and patients at the Anzac Hostel in Victoria c 1919.

Casualties of war

For those who survived the ordeal of combat, the medical legacies could last a lifetime.

By Craig Tibbitts

First World War 1914 - 1918