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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"war service"”.
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“Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”: The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019
… Indigenous Australian and Māori First World War service has been acknowledged in national sites of commemoration in Australia and New Zealand over the past century. Between 1918 and 2019, the national commemorative landscapes in Australia and New Zealand evolved to accommodate changing …
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The problem of the stethoscope: an enquiry, experimental and philosophical, into the properties of this instrument and the physics of auscultation
… of Clinical Medicine. I had previously, while on war service, been interested in the propagation of sound in sea water, and finding that acoustics played so important a part in the diagnosis of pulmonary and cardiac conditions, I naturally sought to understand both the nature of intrathoracic …
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For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945
<p>In the postwar period historians argued that the horrors of the First World War created an irreparable disconnect between soldiers’ pre and postwar lives. Scholars led by Paul Fussell and Eric Leed presented the Great War as a futile waste of life for a meaningless cause. This historiography …
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
<p>When World War II broke out in 1939, and as the United States entered the conflict after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, men and women all across America left their homes to serve the war effort, some of which included Hollywood stars. There were famous actors in the 1950s and 60s who served as …
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Women as voluntary and professional military nurses in Great Britain, 1854-1914
After the Crimean War, civilian initiatives were largely responsible for introducing female nurses into military hospitals to supplement and supervise male orderlies. The early difficulties of the new nursing service were similar to those experienced by middle and upper-class women reformers of …
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For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II
… William Washington Gordon II began his Civil War service in January 1861, he could never have imagined that four years later 600,000 Americans would be dead. Yet hundreds of thousands of men and boys flocked to sign up and experience what they perceived to be a great adventure. William was no …
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The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service : a study in discrimination 1939-1960
… the official military sphere. The power to make war became exclusively men’s. In Australia immigration patterns, geographic features, and a particular historical period combined to create a virulently male dominated society. This was particularly apparent in the armed services. Australia did not …