Wartime Magazine Issue 58

April 2012

Supporting Gallipoli – Invention, nursing and generosity.

• Friends, sisters and pioneers by Robyn Siers. How women made their place in military nursing.
• Portraits of Angels by Alexandra Torrens. Nora Heyson painted nurses of a pioneer medivac unit.
•  “Any old place will do me after this” by Carlie Walker. The true grit of the nurses on Lemnos.
•  Portraits from Lemnos by Joanne Smedley. A trove of photographs reveals the personal stories of a field hospital.
• One day of the year by Samantha Grosser. The Dawn Service tradition.
• Fall from the sky by Craig Wilcox. The truth behind The Great Escape author’s own story.
• Gallipoli: The first photo? By James Hurst. A web of stories surrounds the man who may have taken it.
• The father of invention by Gary Traynor. In the trenches on Gallipoli, a new angle was needed.
• A view to Gallipoli by Emma Campbell. A woman in Cairo left a record of the campaign.
• A fund of comforts by Suzanne McWha. Billy cans and plum puddings sent as gifts to Gallipoli.
• Fred Howard’s War by Brian Tennyson. A story of derring-do in France raises questions about credibility.
• Vignacourt by Peter Burness. An important behind-the-lines centre for Australian troops.
• Writing to the finish by David Horner. The final chapter in the history of Australia’s most contentious war.
  
  Soft cover, fully illustrated, 73 pages.

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