Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from May 2002

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from May 2002

Jonathan Walker, The blood tub: General Gough and the battle of Bullecourt 1917.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Jonathan Walker, The blood tub: General Gough and the battle of Bullecourt 1917, Spellmount, Staplehurst, Kent, UK, 2000, 224 pp., appendixes, maps, photographs, bibliography, index, softcover, rrp $54.95 Bullecourt is perhaps the First...

Dale Blair, Dinkum Diggers: an Australian battalion at war.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Dale Blair, Dinkum Diggers: an Australian battalion at war, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 2001, ix + 246 pp., bibliography and index, softcover, rrp $34.95 The title of this book is taken from a quote by Colonel A. G....

Roger Donnelly, The Scheyville experience: the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville, 1965-1973.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Roger Donnelly, The Scheyville experience: the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville, 1965-1973, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001, 302 pp., appendices, photographs, index, rrp $30 OTU Scheyville was established on 1...

David Coombes, Morshead: hero of Tobruk and El Alamein.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... David Coombes, Morshead: hero of Tobruk and El Alamein, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001, xii + 308 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, rrp $50 The need for a substantial biography of Lieutenant General Sir Leslie...

Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19.
May 1, 2002... {1} The three volumes of the official history of the Australian Army Medical Services during the First World War contain little about the activities and experiences of members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). (1) This is despite...

States of mind: remembering the Australian-New Zealand relationship.
May 1, 2002... {1} On 24 April 2001, the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand participated in the dedication of the New Zealand Memorial on ANZAC Parade in Canberra. Others participating in the ceremony included a Napier school boy, who read from the...

Interpreting "Japanese activities" in Australia, 1888-1945.
May 1, 2002... {1} Communities of Japanese residents in Australia were always small before the Second World War compared with other nationalities, but they were watched closely by the Army, Navy, Security Services and Police forces who became suspicious of...

Petrol rationing in Australia during the Second World War.
May 1, 2002... {1} At the start of the Second World War Australia was lamentably unprepared for conflict, especially with regard to supplies of petrol. The First World War provided no guidelines, as although petrol rationing had been considered early in 1918,...

Tim Travers, Gallipoli 1915.(Book Review)
May 1, 2002... Tim Travers, Gallipoli 1915, Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2001, 287 pp., illustrations, maps, appendixes, bibliography, endnotes, index, hard cover, rrp $39.99 Continuing historical debate over the Gallipoli campaign suggests...