1918 on the Web

Accession Number MSS2073
Collection type Manuscript
Measurement 1 wallet: 2cm
Object type Manuscript
Maker Hearder, Rosalind
Date made 1998
Access Open
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

120 page manuscript. Draft text and layouts for planned website relating to Australian forces in 1918 in France. Contents include: Quiz about 1918, The Relics Collection, Baron von Richthofen. The Australian Imperial Force in 1918; Australia's Military Medical Personnel, Nurses, Trench Warfare, Operation Michel, Halting the Germans, Prisoners of War, Hamel, Peaceful Penetration. Technology Weaponry and Communications in 1918; Tanks, General Sir John Monash, The Allies Advance August 1918, The Amiens Gun, Mont St Quentin and Peronne, Pvt. Robert Mactier VC, Breaking the Hindenburg Line, 1918 and War Weariness. Friends Foes and the Australian soldier in 1918; Australian soldiers relations with the British, Australian soldier's relations with the French, Australian soldier's relations with Germans, Australian soldier's attitudes to superiors, The diggers relations with each other. Final Victory and Armistice; The cost of war. Home at Last; The Australians return, influenza, Aftermath of the war. Glossary. Included throughout are photographs form the Memorial's collection, copies of newspaper articles, illustrations, and sheet music.