machine gun, mortar and air attacks and suffered heavy casualties. Yet they held their position for several days and refused to surrender. During the battle, Anderson had tried to evacuate the wounded by using
By retelling his family's story, Alistair Thomson has been able to fashion a moving portrait of his family: his grandmother Nell, and after her death, of their sons, Al's dad and his uncle, still children, having cold mutton for Christmas dinner, alo...
Many things are missing from this book, but such was the state of my historical understanding then. And the state of the profession, I might add. Today, most obviously, I would seek to include the story of Indigenous Australians on the homefront, as I have done for more recent books. I...
and the South Pacific , Yorick Smaal tells the story of a group of veterans who on Anzac Day in 1982 attended the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to acknowledge those who had served and died during the Second World War. There... E Vickers - 《Journal of the History of Sexuality》 被...
"Within weeks they would sail for France, having experienced the horror of trench warfare on the ridges above Anzac Cove, they were now to confront even more." Turnbull said Australia, New Zealand and Turkey count Gallipoli as a momentous chapter in their foundation story. ...
such as the DADOS war dairies can be extrapolated to tell the story of the NZAOC. For example, Williams details the Ordnance preparations for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) operations at Gallipoli, the challenges faced during the campaign and how Ordnance was never to get fully organ...
I don't know what it's like to say goodbye to my love as he leaves the country to fight for our freedom, to defend our peace. What it's like to bring children into an uncertain and dark world while their father (and for others, their mother) may never co
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The champion doesn’t have such a strong storyline. This is much more a story of character than incident, which is why I think it will appeal to older children. –Writer Maurice Gee in The Listener, 7 October 1989, page 29 Key Cast & Crew ...
story at Cotton Tree, where an estimated 1500 people attended the dawn service and about 3000 paid tribute at 9am.Hinterland centres reported big numbers, while at Buderim the dawn crowd was estimated at 1500 and then more than double that for the main ceremony.Similar numbers lined Nambour'...