Wartime 98 - Autumn 2022

wartime issue 98

The First World War

Featured articles: 

  • The little boy and the Hun by Thomas J. Rogers. Australian propaganda posters reveal an imperial view of the First World War.
  • Keeping them flying by Meghan Adams. Air Mechanics of the Australian Flying Corps played an essential part in early military aviation.
  • Victory and defeat by Nick Lloyd. Remembering the Western Front, 1914-18.
  • "My tanks were not to blame" by Meleah Hampton. The first battle of Bullecourt showed how one man could change everything.
  • Coalition warmaking by Meighen McCrae. The allies’ Entente Cordiale built military might against Germany in the First World War.
  • Kangaroos by the Pyramids by Duncan Beard. Diggers stationed in Egypt during the First and Second World Wars earned a reputation for trouble.
  • Rosenthal the man by Tim Kemm. Architect, musician, soldier, hero – he was “rare among brass hats”.
  • Life in the line by Rose Dryzek. Soldiers of 1RAR in Korea learned how to cope under extremely adverse conditions.
  • Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, Behind the Scenes, book reviews and Last Post.

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In this issue

A German stretcher bearer carrying a patient to an Aid Post.

A very rare stretcher

On a pallet at the Memorial’s Treloar Technology Centre is a very rare stretcher. 

By Emily Hyles

First World War
Film still of bayonet training in Australia Prepared

Australia Prepared

In 1916, the government sponsored war documentaries to be screened around Australia.

By Sarah Kershaw

First World War