Guest Speaker Trish Skehan
She spoke about her book ‘The Secrets of Anzac Ridge:
In Flanders Fields’.
She was enthusiastic and passionate about the subject matter and
spoke of many people who were engaged in WW1 in the Flanders fields of France.
The book’s “secrets” (The Secrets of Anzac Ridge) are the personal, often private,
stories from diaries and letters that reveal the human reality of war beyond official
histories.
The book weaves together the experiences of various people, including
Australian soldiers like James Armitage and General Sir John Monash, as well as doctors,
nurses, and gunners.
Many members purchased books from Trish.