Military History Section Staff Biographies
Aaron Pegram
Aaron Pegram is a historian in the Military History Section and the managing editor of the Memorial’s magazine, Wartime. He was a curator at the National Museum of Australia before joining the Memorial’s Photographs section in December 2007. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from Charles Sturt University, and is currently writing a PhD thesis at the Australian National University on Australian prisoners in German captivity during the First World War.
Edited works
William Cull, Both sides of the wire: the memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War, ed. Aaron Pegram, Allen and Unwin, 2011
Selected publications
“Giving the game away”, Wartime, 57, 2011
Review of Fighting Nineteenth, by Wayne Matthews and David Wilson, Wartime, 56, 2011
Review of The battle of Fromelles 1916, by Roger Lee, Wartime, 53, 2010
“Bold bids for freedom”, Wartime, 52, 2010
“There will be no live VCs for 8 Group”, Wartime, 51, 2010
Review of Don’t forget me cobber: the battle of Fromelles, by Robin Corfield, Wartime, 50, 2010
Review of The Wolf, by Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen, Wartime, 48, 2009
“Shots from along the trail”, Wartime, 48, 2009
“The spirit of the bayonet”, Wartime, 47, 2009
“A shot in the dark”, Wartime, 47, 2009
Review of Aussie Soldier: Prisoner of war, ed. Dennie Neave and Craig Smith, Wartime, 47, 2009
“The arms of black melancholy”, Wartime, 46, 2009
Review of In action with the SAS, by David Horner with Neil Thomas, Wartime, 46, 2009
Review of The war behind the wire, ed. Michael Caulfield, Wartime, 45, 2009
“Australia’s Fromelles prisoners”, Wartime, 44, 2008
“McDougall’s stand at Dernancourt”, Wartime, 42, 2008
“German offensive tactics”, Wartime, 42, 2008
Conference papers and seminars
“Black bread, barbed wire: Australians and the German spring reprisals of 1917”, Estaminet: Canberra’s First World War study group, National Museum of Australia, 25 November 2011
“In the bag: Australian prisoners in German captivity during the First World War, 1916–1918”, Constructing the Past,Australian Historical Association Conference, University of the Sunshine Coast, 30 June – 3 July 2009
“The bounds of silence: the capture of Australian prisoners on the Western Front, 1916–1918”, Research School of Humanities first-year students’ conference, Australian National University, 25–26 August 2008
“Polygon Wood: battlefield, mythical place, site of mourning”, the Australian Society of Archivists, National Museum of Australia, 13 November 2007
“Men from Snowy River: a First World War recruitment march”, 90th anniversary commemorations of the Men from Snowy River recruitment march, Delegate Town Hall, 16 January 2006
