Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from April 2003

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from April 2003

The organisation of camouflage in Australia in the Second World War.
April 1, 2003... "In a general sense, camouflage is the art of concealing the fact that you are concealing". [1] {1} Camouflage in Australia in the Second World War hardly receives mention in contemporary military histories, but it is a subject which...

John Connor, The Australian frontier wars 1788-1838.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... John Connor, The Australian frontier wars 1788-1838, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2002, xii + 175 pp., maps, bibliography, index, soft cover, rrp A$29.95 Once upon a time, it was common knowledge that the frontiers of...

Brian Farrell & Sandy Hunter (eds.), Sixty years on: the fall of Singapore revisited.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Brian Farrell & Sandy Hunter (eds.), Sixty years on: the fall of Singapore revisited, Eastern Universities Press, Singapore, 2002, xvi + 359 pp., illustrations, maps, index, soft cover, rrp US$39 (approx A$81) Discussion and dispute about...

Chris Coulthard-Clark, Breaking free: transforming Australia's defence industry.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Chris Coulthard-Clark, Breaking free: transforming Australia's defence industry, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1999, xvi + 288 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index, hardback, $25 (copies available from Secretary, Corporate...

Peter S. Sadler, The paladin: a life of Major-General Sir John Gellibrand.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Peter S. Sadler, The paladin: a life of Major-General Sir John Gellibrand, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000, x + 310 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, hard cover, rrp A$39.95 John Gellibrand was a Tasmanian-born Briton...

Camden's salvage campaign, 1939-45.
April 1, 2003... {1} Salvage collection, now called recycling, was one of the many home front activities that was carried on during the Second World War in Australia and elsewhere. The aim of these collections was to gather up waste material from various...

Australian First World War "slanguage".
April 1, 2003... {1} Tucked away in the Australian War Memorial archives is an unpublished typescript of Australian soldiers' slang collected in the years following the First World War. Entitled a 'Glossary of Slang and Peculiar Terms in Use in the A.I.F.', it...

Voluntary Ballot Enlistment Scheme, 1918.
April 1, 2003... {1} On 20 December 1917, Commonwealth government plans for the introduction of conscription were defeated at referendum for the second time (the first poll having been taken little more than a year before, on 28 October 1916). This meant that...