A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia
- Written by James Waghorne, Academic Historian, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
The war spurred surgeons to develop new techniques, such as traction splints and blood transfusions.from shutterstock.com
The first world war was significant to the formation of Australian national identity and defining national characteristics, such as making do and mateship. This is well acknowledged.
But it was also a technical war, which...
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