Craig Tibbitts

Senior Historian, Military History

Craig has worked at the Australian War Memorial since 2000, initially as an archivist in the Research Centre and since 2016 with the Military History Section where he is now a Senior Historian. Craig has studied library and archives management at University of Canberra and more recently (2024), was awarded a Master’s degree in Military History and War Studies from UNSW (ADFA). His thesis was titled The Mental Wounds of War: Representations of Australia’s Experience of the First World War.

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