Journal of the Australian War Memorial articles from October 2003

Journal of the Australian War Memorial archives from October 2003

A "trace of history": cartoons from the Australian War Memorial Christmas books of the Second World War.
October 1, 2003... "then there was the need of laughter, only--it was not easy" --QX6905, Khaki and Green (1943), p.188. {1} Much of the literature dealing with humour in war takes a broad perspective, generally treating humour as an integral part of...

The Egoroff mystery.
October 1, 2003... {1} Private Andrew Egoroff was twenty-six years of age when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) at Blackboy Hill in Western Australia on 5 July 1915. He was assigned to the 51st Battalion and then to the 4th Field Bakery during...

George Franki & Clyde Slatyer, Mad Harry: Australia's most decorated soldier.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... George Franki & Clyde Slatyer, Mad Harry: Australia's most decorated soldier, Kangaroo, Press Sydney, 2003, xi + 276 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, soft cover, rrp A$29.95. This book is the first published biography of one...

Called to arms: Australian soldiers in the Easter Rising 1916.
October 1, 2003... {1} On 24 April 1916, Easter Monday, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, under orders from the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, occupied buildings in strategic locations throughout the city of...

Dayton McCarthy, The once and future army: a history of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947-74.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Dayton McCarthy, The once and future army: a history of the Citizen Military Forces, 1947-74, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003, xiv + 303 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography, index, hard cover, rrp A$55.00 The long partnership...

John Crawford & Ian McGibbon (eds.), One flag, one Queen, one tongue: New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War 1899-1902.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... John Crawford & Ian McGibbon (eds.), One flag, one Queen, one tongue: New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War 1899-1902, Auckland University Press, New Zealand, 2003, xii + 225 pp., illustrations, tables, index, soft cover,...