What Australian soldiers ate for Christmas in WWI
- Written by Heather Merle Benbow, Senior lecturer in German and European Studies, University of Melbourne
Cover of the menu for the AIF Christmas Dinner, Hotel Cecil, London, in 1916. Illustration by Fred Leist. Museums Victoria collection, donated by Jean BourkeWe have just concluded four years of commemoration of the centenary of the first world war and, although the guns fell silent in November 1918, by Christmas many Australians were still...





