Year 9

This book provides the first comprehensive examination and comparison of how indigenous peoples of Canada, Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa experienced the Great War.
By late 1915 the imperial government demanded their inclusion to meet the pragmatic need for military manpower. Indigenous peoples responded with patriotism and enthusiasm both on the battlefield and the home front and shared equally in the horrors and burdens of the First World War.
Tip: Look up Australia in the index to find the sections that will assist you.

While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been largely ignored or marginalised in national histories of war and service, they have remembered their involvement in Defence service and the service of their relatives. Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This unique book shares lively and compelling stories of war, defence service, and the impact on individuals, families, and communities, sometimes for the first time.

Devotion explores the contribution and courage of Australian nurses in conflicts and peacekeeping operations from the Boer War to the present. Look for information on the WW1 experience. It features stories and images from the Memorial's rich collection, along with questions for discussion, a map and timeline.

Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, wards and tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts in human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours. There are accounts of nurses' experiences at Gallipoli, the Marquette and the Western Front.

When Patsy Adam-Smith wrote Australian Women at War in 1984, her aim was to tap into the memories of all the 'brave, modest, forgotten women' while they were still alive, in order to honour them. Now, for the first time, this iconic volume is republished for an entirely new generation of readers. This magnificent work is a history of how Australian women have responded to war.

Australian Heroines Of World War One is the story of eight courageous women, told through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and maps.

This text investigates the experiences and changing roles of Australian women in war and peace operations from 1899 to today. There is a section on Australian women in WWI. This includes: the experiences of nurses & other medical workers; women's experiences on the home front; and the continuing impacts of the war after 1918.

Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout the war and were the basis of his monumental twelve-volume official war history. While his diaries relating to the Gallipoli campaign have been published in four editions, Bean's Western Front diaries are published here for the first time, edited by esteemed historian Peter Burness, and accompanied by over 500 incredible photographs, sketches and maps.

The bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War's Western Front. Private Edward Lynch was just 18 when he enlisted in the army. When he returned to Australia almost three years later, he wrote Somme Mud, a vivid account of the horrific realities of trench warfare from an ordinary infantryman's point of view.

In this book, the author persuaded the 'boys who came home' from both sides of the conflict to remember: to recall the horror, confusion, hardship, courage and humour of a campaign that is still marked nationally.

Padre Kenneth Best sailed with the 42nd East Lancashire Division to Gallipoli in early May 1915. He witnessed first hand the experiences of the Allied troops, which he describes through the pages of his extraordinary diaries.

This book presents photographs from Australia's major archival collections. These images, often taken by the soldiers themselves, combined with illustrations created for the metropolitan newspapers, were the images responsible for creating the public memory of Gallipoli back in Australia. There are also moving extracts from soldiers letters and diaries, along with official dispatches of war correspondents present at Gallipoli.

The documents in this booklet are largely primary sources, such as letters, diaries, reminiscences, photographs and official papers as well as particular case studies of families, individuals and localities.
The booklet contains a short general introduction and most documents have short explanatory notes, but editorial comment is kept to a minimum.

This commemorative publication is a part of the Century of Service series. It explores the stories of several Australians who have served in the Commonwealth Naval Force and the Royal Australian Navy. Each person included had to overcome challenges and weather adversity during their service. The book focuses on the determination, resilience and commitment shown in navy life.

This book traces our naval history over two centuries of war and peace, from the RAN's first battle in 1914 to the desperate years of the Second World War. It concludes with a summary of the remarkable range of service seen by the RAN from Korea and Vietnam to the Persian Gulf.

The stories in this book are about people who served in the RAAF, either in the sky or on the ground in Australia and around the world. Whilst the book deals primarily with the RAAF which was formed in 1921, there is some information about service during World War I.

Australia was the first Commonwealth nation to found her own navy and air force. This book relates the achievements of Australian airmen from the founding of the 'Australian Flying Corps' of First World War fame, and the subsequent birth of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1921, through the Second World War to the jet age of today.
Rare photographs show the aircraft Australian airmen flew, while the text recounts the battles they fought and the range of service seen by Australians from the Western Front dogfights of 1917 to the Second Iraq War.