Wartime Magazine Issue 32
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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.