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EJANZH: Davison on History and Hypertext

Graeme Davison, Department of History, Monash University. Years ago, when I used to teach a course on the history of the industrial revolution, we sometimes discussed what it must have been like to live through that era of cataclysmic technological…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

We went over in three lines. I think there were 32 boats in the three lines and on our left flank we had the Sydney and I think. I don’t know what was leading .. I’ve got the records in…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

In Paletsine and Syria, our food was quite good. I don’t feel that we could complain about it at all excepting the quality of our cooks. And its common knowledge that they spoilt more good food than they cooked. But…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: The desert’s a big place and there a lot of hills in it that are here today and gone tomorrow for camps and I don’t remember the actual place. I can remember an instance when we were chased –…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: I always remember Rafa because I think I was one of the most fortunate, the show was one of the most fortunate part of the whole show. We happened to be, we were joined in battle with them in…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: I wasn’t actually in action at Romani. I had been on, I had had an attack of dysentery that I picked up from eating some bad tinned fowl at Cantara. I had been away with dysentery and I had…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: On one occasion, before the big push north into Palestine it was, when everything had to be hush-hush and we had to treat the natives or the desert Arabs or the Bedouins, or whatever you like to call them,…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: Did I ever tell you what my opinion of the evacuation was? Turnbull: No, you didn’t Ellwood: Do you mind if we digress? Turnbull: Not at all. Ellwood: I am of the opinion that it was not as it…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: The issue on Gallipoli was bully beef in a tin which came from the Argentine and the property of Fray Bentos and he was a count and he was a German in the first place and the second place…