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‘I am wretchedly sad’: Bertha Monash’s letters and women on the first world war home front

By Bessie Mikelsons, PhD Candidate, History, Deakin University

Bertha Monash – the daughter of battle commander John Monash – was 21 at the outbreak of the first world war, and an eager participant in Australia’s war effort.

Together with tens of thousands of other Australian women, Bertha’s voluntary patriotic work involved knitting socks, sewing shirts, organising fundraising events, making warhorse bandages and assembling…

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