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100 years later, why don't we commemorate the victims and heroes of Spanish flu ?

  • Written by Peter Hobbins, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
Women were at the forefront of managing the influenza pandemic.AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

At Sydney’s enormous Rookwood Cemetery, a lichen-spotted headstone captures a family’s double burden of grief.

The grave contains the remains of 19-year-old Harriet Ann Ottaway, who died on 2 July 1919. Its monument also commemorates her brother Henry...

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