As is so often the case in times of conflict, the Great War saw rapid developments not only in technology and tactics but also in medical research, a plethora of medical papers being published encompassing just about every condition it was conceived that a soldier might encounter. Continue reading
Here we go again. Continue reading
The issue of conscription was one that all the countries of the Commonwealth would have to deal with at some point during the Great War, and Australia was no different. Continue reading
The most famous image of the Great War was originally designed as a magazine cover. Bet you didn’t know that. Continue reading
Eleven months ago we began this tour of the Kemmel battlefields by visiting Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 2, and today, as the sun gets lower in the sky, we shall finish with two more of the Demarcation Stones that ostensibly mark the limit of the German advance in the spring of 1918. Continue reading
On the outskirts of Loker, which is actually behind us, because the sign is one-sided, and thus we are looking east here, back up the road towards Mont Kemmel on the horizon, there’s a cemetery. Continue reading
So what’s all this then? Continue reading
