The French Australian Review – No 69 Australian Summer 2020-2021
JANE GILMOUR, ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword CAROLINE WINTER, Com-Memoration of the Great War: Tourists and remembrance on the Western Front Social memory changes in response to the characteristics and needs of each generation, thus it can often present a somewhat more favourable perspective on past events, compared with historical reality. In the lead up to the […]
The French Australian Review – No 68 Australian Winter 2020
ELAINE LEWIS, JANE GILMOUR, Foreword IRENE ROGERS, ‘A Gift for France’: the Australian Bluebird nurses of the Great War WINNER OF THE 2020 IVAN BARKO AWARD In July 1916, a group of twenty one Australian trained nurses known as the Bluebirds left Australia for the Western Front. They were under contract with The New South Wales […]