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Book Synopsis Australian War Graves Workers and World War One by : Fred Cahir
Download or read book Australian War Graves Workers and World War One written by Fred Cahir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving families in Australia had a physical grave which they could mourn the loss of their loved ones. By presenting biographical vignettes of eight men who undertook this work, the book examines the mechanics of the commemoration of the Great War and extends our understanding of the individual toll this onerous task took on the workers themselves.
Download or read book A Distant Grief written by Bart Ziino and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty thousand Australians died during the First World War. This book is the first major study to examine the roles of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning, through archival research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the organization responsible for commemorating the million soldiers of the British Empire who died in the war. A Distant Grief reorients and enriches international discussion of reactions to death and commemoration during, and after, the First World War. The author, Bart Ziino, has written on war memorials, Gallipoli, and the Australian memory of war. The thesis on which this book is based won the 2005 Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for the best thesis in Australian History.
Book Synopsis Missing in Action by : Marianne van Velzen
Download or read book Missing in Action written by Marianne van Velzen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure. Lieutenant Robert Burns was one of the missing, and now that the guns had fallen silent his father wanted to know what had become of his son. He wasn't the only one looking for answers. A loud clamour arose from Australia for information and the need for the dead to be buried respectfully. Many of the Australians charged with the grisly task of finding and reburying the dead were deeply flawed. Each had his own reasons for preferring to remain in France instead of returning home. In the end there was a great scandal, with allegations of 'body hoaxing' and gross misappropriation of money and army possessions leading to two highly secretive inquiries. Untold until now, Missing in Action is the compelling and unexpected story of those dark days and darker deeds and a father's desperate search for his son's remains.
Book Synopsis Unique Australian War Graves and Memorials Worldwide by : Martin P. Nicholson
Download or read book Unique Australian War Graves and Memorials Worldwide written by Martin P. Nicholson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is compiled from the records maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission of servicemen and women killed or missing since the start of the First World War in 1914. The book is subdivided into four separate sections. The first contains details of all the cemeteries that only contain one grave or one name on a memorial of a member of the Australian Armed Forces. The second contains details of the location of the grave or memorial that is the only one in a particular country. The third and fourth sections contain details of the location of the grave or memorial naming Australian servicemen or women who were the only representative of their rank or unit anywhere in the world to lose their lives. Every life lost as a result of military service is a tragedy for the family and friends of the individual, and this book does not seek to imply that those listed here are any more deserving of memory than those not selected. The CWGC lists over 102,000 names of dead or missing Australian service personnel who are remembered at locations worldwide. Of these 56,467 (55.4%) were private soldiers but only one was a Plumber First Class.
Book Synopsis Australian Heroines of World War One by : Susanna de Vries
Download or read book Australian Heroines of World War One written by Susanna de Vries and published by Pirgos Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Heroines of World War One tells the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring. Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs. She defied censorship and kept a very frank diary, reproduced here for the first time.In 1914, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist, was caught in the besieged city of Antwerp and made a hair-raising escape from a German firing squad.Brisbane's Grace Wilson, ordered to establish an emergency hospital on drought ridden Lemnos Island, arrived there to find suffering Anzacs but no drinking water, tents or medical supplies. Grace and her nurses saved the lives of thousands who had been wounded at Lone Pine and the Nek.In France, Florence James-Wallace, Anne Donnell and Elsie Tranter nursed near the front line in Casualty Clearing Stations, treating soldiers with hideous wounds or blinded by mustard gas. In 1918 they had to deal with an epidemic of Spanish flu, killing some nurses. These brave women returned to Australia but their heroism was quickly forgotten. Two of these women received such meagre pensions they died destitute. Publication of this book with its numerous illustrations has been facilitated by a generous donation from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, keen that these stories become known to Australians of all ages. This is an updated editon with additional information on some of the nurses supplied by their relatives after they read the first edition.
Book Synopsis Australian Women and War by : Melanie Oppenheimer
Download or read book Australian Women and War written by Melanie Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Book Synopsis Empires of the Dead by : David Crane
Download or read book Empires of the Dead written by David Crane and published by Collins. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable and visionary man, Fabian Ware. Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home for burial. The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the efforts of one inspired visionary. In 1914, Fabian Ware joined the Red Cross, working on the frontline in France. Horrified by the hasty burials, he recorded the identity and position of the graves. His work was officially recognised, with a Graves Registration Commission being set up. As reports of their work became public, the Commission was flooded with letters from grieving relatives around the world. Critically acclaimed author David Crane gives a profoundly moving account of the creation of the great citadels to the dead, which involved leading figures of the day, including Rudyard Kipling. It is the story of cynical politicking, as governments sought to justify the sacrifice, as well as the grief of nations, following the 'war to end all wars'.
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Book Synopsis Office of Australian War Graves by : Australia. Dept.of Veterans' Affairs. Office of Australian War Graves
Download or read book Office of Australian War Graves written by Australia. Dept.of Veterans' Affairs. Office of Australian War Graves and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves by : David Crane
Download or read book Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves written by David Crane and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves 2002 by : Australia. Office of Australian War Graves
Download or read book Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves 2002 written by Australia. Office of Australian War Graves and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembered written by Julie Summers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book marks the 90th anniversary of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. Charting the development of the magnificent cemeteries and memorials built in 150 countries, Remembered emphasizes the importance of the commission's work not only in commemorating the dead, but also in preserving the sites of some of the most historically significant battles of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Anzac Labour written by Nathan Wise and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East.
Book Synopsis 2004 Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves by : Australia. Office of Australian War Graves
Download or read book 2004 Journal of the Office of Australian War Graves written by Australia. Office of Australian War Graves and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man who Carried the Nation's Grief by : Carol Rosenhain
Download or read book The Man who Carried the Nation's Grief written by Carol Rosenhain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I do feel the loss of my two boys, they was my all …’ wrote grieving father Ernest Watts following the death of his two sons. Like thousands of Australians during World War I, Ernest Watts received his tragic news through the office known as ‘Base Records’. This letter was just one in a series of correspondence that lasted the duration of the war and well into the post-war period. Every letter was answered with patience and courtesy and every response carried the same signature: J.M. Lean. The Man who Carried the Nation’s Grief describes the extraordinary work of James Lean, whose office at times received over 100 letters a day from distressed families. The letters selected by author Carol Rosenhain are quoted verbatim in all their rawness, the grief, anger and disbelief of the writer signifying wounds that would take years to heal while others never would. Like those of Ernest Watts, the letters often form part of a chain of correspondence that lasted well beyond the Armistice of 1918. For one shattered father, the fate of his missing boy would never be resolved, his son’s final resting place only discovered in Pheasant Wood almost a century after he met his death. Given his crucial role as the link between anxious families and the bureaucracy of the AIF, James Lean’s remarkable work is a surprising omission from the vast body of World War I literature. Carol Rosenhain’ s book rectifies this omission with a portrait of Lean himself and the grim task at which he excelled. This is a book that describes the impact of war on families in all its devastating reality.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Australian War Graves Western Europe 1939-45 by : Robert Cleworth
Download or read book A Guide to Australian War Graves Western Europe 1939-45 written by Robert Cleworth and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book lists the surnames and locations of war graves in CWGC plots in UK & Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland and a brief history of the development of Australian War Graves and some aspects encountered in the research and location of graves in familyn plots in civil cemeteries.
Book Synopsis Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations by : John Fisher
Download or read book Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations written by John Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other Great Powers. The period covered is from the demise of the Levant Company in 1825, to the deconsecration of the Crimean Memorial Church in Istanbul, in 1976. Other sacred spaces discussed include the British Embassy Chapel, the Crimean War cemeteries, various British churches and cemeteries in Izmir, the Gallipoli cemeteries, connected with the campaign of 1915, and the Phanar, the Ecumenical Patriarch's home in Istanbul. The book considers how, and to what extent, the Foreign Office in London, and its staff in Turkey, intervened to secure those spaces, and why the politics of the Patriarchate intruded into the Foreign Office's geo-strategic considerations. It considers the limits of that support, and how dealings over sacred space intermeshed generally with British policy towards Turkey. It further explores the motives, not just of diplomats and consuls, who were instrumental in establishing or safeguarding those spaces, but also the aims of other organisations and of expatriate Britons, who were similarly involved. It also considers instances where such support became attenuated or was withdrawn. The book is unique in illuminating, in a broad fashion, the role of sacred space in the context of Anglo-Turkish relations, and British power projection in the Near East.
Book Synopsis Return to Gallipoli by : Bruce Scates
Download or read book Return to Gallipoli written by Bruce Scates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.
