Spring 2005

HEROES: Coolness - Control - Endurance - Audacity - Decision

• Reflections by Steve Gower.  
  The Director of the Australian War Memorial's comment
• Inspirational Bravery by Peter Burness.  
  How brave men inspire others.
• Weary Dunlop: emblematic prisoner by Peter Stanley.  
  Explaining the fame of Australia’s most prominent prisoner of war.
• ‘Miracle’ worker by Ian Warden.  
  A remarkable woman ran canteens for Australian soldiers.
• The last hours of the Red Baron by Thomas Alured Faunce.  
  Australians’ role in this famous First World War incident.
• The ridge and the river by Donald Lawie.  
  Fierce fighting on Bougainville in early 1945.
• Robert Nimmo by Peter Londey.  
  Australia's most successful peacekeeping observer ever.
• ‘No lipstick, no rouge, no dancing in uniform’ by Jennifer Coombes.  
  Olive King made herself useful during the First World War.
• A disappointing hero by Craig Wilcox.  
  There is more to being a hero than performing heroic deeds.
• An unfamiliar face of the enemy by Rosalind Hearder.  
  Not every prisoner-of-war guard was brutal.
• Caring for the past by Anne-Marie Condé.  
  How the record of Australian war experience came down to us.
• A shoebox of memories by Kenneth R. Peacock.  
  The story of a First World War soldier’s life.
• The Bomber Command memorial 
  • Excerpt from No moon tonight by Don Charlwood 
  • The Bomber Command sculpture by Claire Baddeley
• Shared experience by Peter Stanley and Lola Wilkins.  
  A new international exhibition of Second World War art.
• Horse husbandry on the Western Front by Jim Noble.  
  ‘Equine forces’ a deciding factor.
• The last Boer War centenary by Craig Wilcox.  
  A soldier’s final journey home.
• Eyewitness: Defender of liberty, honour and freedom by Lieutenant Percy Blythe, MM
• Plus regular features, including book reviews, letters and Memorial news.

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