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War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: I came back from Australia, I came back on leave. You want my personal thoughts about the whole thing and this is something that is very close to undressing my sole. I had the feeling that I had done…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: I went through the valley of the kings, too, as a matter of fact I met Carter, or had morning tea with Carter, the chap who uncovered the tomb of Tut. And saw a few of the tombs that…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: In a few hours leave, and I was very impressed with the old city particularly the old cobblestone streets of the old city. and ah one or two of the things that I found very interesting was first of…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

In the Jordan valley I was in command of B squadron and mail had come in. It was a quite period. We were occupying our posts and there was nothing doing much, we used to get a shelling every now…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Turnbull: Could I ask you something about the Turks themselves and the Turkish prisoners that you took. Ellwood: I was more-or-less responsible that the crowd we collected at Magdhaba were escorted back from after the engagement. But apart from that…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: I don’t know of any instance where wounded did not get the care and attention as much as you could possibly give them. Our doctors performed their jobs an did them well. Usually though, the doctors well kept back…

EJANZH: Connors on Fesl and Colwell

Eve Mumewa D. Fesl, Conned! . St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. pp. 265. Illustrated. $18.95. Wayne Coolwell, My Kind of People: Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality . St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. Pp ix + 154. Illustrated.…

EJANZH: Bobbie Oliver, Reviewed by Jeffrey Grey

Bobbie Oliver, Peacemongers: Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Australia, 1911-1945. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 1997. 191 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Jeffrey Grey This book deals with conscientious objection to conscription for overseas service and to compulsory military training…

EJANZH: the Anglo-American History Guide

This is a new internet resource guide of the Lower Saxony State and the University Library at Goettingen Within the Special Subject (SSG) Collection program of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the State and University Library at…

EJANZH: Davis on Dixson

Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda: Woman and Identity in Australia 1788 to the present, Ringwood, Victoria, Penguin, 1994, x and 318 p., $17.95, and Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police, Ringwood, Victoria, Penguin, 1994, ix and 549 p .,…