Bruce Scates is a Professor at the ANU School of History.
A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Bruce’s many publications include Return to Gallipoli, A New Australia and Women and the Great War (co authored with Raelene Frances). The last of these won the NSW Premier’s History Award.
In May 1918, the hospital ship SS Kanowna drifted to a halt in the Indian Ocean. The ship’s engines slowed…