Wartime Magazine Issue 27

Winter 2004

The Western Front

• Reflections by Steve Gower.  
  The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
• Cowra breakout by Anne-Marie Condé.  
  60th anniversary of the only mass breakout of prisoners in the history of the British empire.
• Two soldiers and a Vickers gun by Brad Manera.  
  Two George Cross winners who died during the breakout.
• Australian officers in Normandy by John Jackson.  
  A small group of Australian officers went to observe the D-Day landings.
• The butcher of Fromelles by Ross McMullin.  
  Blustering incompetence was no barrier to promotion for one British commander.
• On the Western Front by Peter Cochrane.  
  A photo essay.
• Rebirth of a city damned by Carolyne Carter.  
  BCOF soldiers visit Hiroshima in 1947.
• Mesopotamian Half Flight by Ian Hodges.  
  Australian airmen in what is now southern Iraq in 1915.
• A chateau in France by Peter Burness.  
  Grand homes on the front line.
• Yeramba by Steve Gower and Mike Cecil.  
  The story of Australia’s only self-propelled gun.
• Tragedy at An Nhut by Elizabeth Stewart.  
  Three men killed by a mine in Vietnam.
• A war artist before his war by Craig Wilcox.  
  Arthur Streeton in London looks forward to the war.
• The greater ‘truth’ by Laura Back.  
  The art of commissioning sculpture.
• First in action by Colin Jones.  
  Australia’s first warship in the Maori wars.
• Observer at large by Peter Londey.  
  Keith Howard in UNTSO.
• Reflections on Rwanda by Garth Pratten.  
  Veterans recall their service on the 10th anniversary of Australia’s mission to Rwanda.
• Eyewitness  
  The path to Gallipoli.
• Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.

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