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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Bill Gammage

Bill Gammage is a historian whose work includes The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (1974). Other books include The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia (2011) and with Bruce Pascoe, Country: Future Fire, Future Farming.

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Published in Overland Issue 251 Winter 2023 · History

An incident at Passchendaele

Bill Gammage

Occasionally one encounters a story or situation that seems to reach out of the mass of historical fact and lend an individual shape to its anonymous suffering. In October 1917 one such remarkable incident took place on the battlefield of Passchendaele in western Belgium; it began a search for the relatives of the dead which has continued for more than a century.