Wartime Magazine Issue 7

Winter 1999

• A memoral to Australia's service nurses by Ita Buttrose.  
  For 100 years, Australia's service nurses have been caring for our fighting men
• "One vast Australian cemetery": the battle for Pozières by G.D. Sheffield.  
  July and August 1916 left Pozières ridge "more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth"
• "If I die, at any rate I will have tried" by Peter Londey.  
  A young Australian’s journey to the heart of modern warfare
• "The strain of watching": the origins of the Pozières diorama by Anne-Marie Conde.  
  The battle of Pozières helped inspire the creation of the Australian War Memorial - and of a haunting diorama in our galleries
• A token of remembrance for the local heroes of north Borneo by Richard Reid.  
  Remembering the people of North Borneo who helped prisoners of the Japanese
• Ruling off the ledger: Memorial to victims of Sandakan death marches by Robert Pounds.  
  New Memorials at Sandakan and Ranau
• A unique record of Sandakan prisoner-of-war camp by Richard Reid.
• A Waikato tour: Australia and New Zealand Wars, 1863-64 by Mark Whitmore.  
  The first overseas war in which Australians fought
• Parliamentary inquiry reports on the loss of HMAS Sydney by Rick Pelvin.
• Know your warships! Part 2 by Richard Pelvin with G. Clewes and I. Hodges.  
  Education supplement
• Plus regular features, including Reflections, Mail Call, and book reviews.