World War I: Home

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Access a range of primary and secondary sources covering, Early Reactions to War, The Rush to Enlist, Training and Preparation, Arguments over Conscription, Propoganda and The Homefront.

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"This article uses the closed patient medical files from two large Sydney psychiatric hospitals to discuss ways in which the return of soldiers suffering mental illness, both during and after the First World War, impacted on Australian society ... "

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"In 1918, World War I ended and Australia’s social landscape was forever changed. The war took away the nation’s innocence, and filled its people with sorrow and despair during and after the war. The cheerful enthusiasm and strong patriotism for King and Country had been sorely tested, and for many, would never be the same ... "

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"Australia may well hold the record for rescuing the most shell-shocked soldier from the front during World War One. nIn late 1916, a young man came home from the front so badly psychologically damaged that for 12 years he could not tell a soul who he was. His case was extreme and captured the public imagination. Newspapers called him Australia’s Unknown Soldier—buried, not in a cenotaph, but alive ... "

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"Throughout history, war has brought destruction and misery to humanity, and left millions dead. Among those who survive, many are broken in body or damaged in mind and spirit. The First World War was Australia’s first major conflict in an age of “total war”, and its first experience of casualties on a mass scale. More than 60,000 would die, but the majority who served did return home ... "

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"Australians served in World War I in all theatres of operation. Many served in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later were involved in the campaigns in the Middle East and on the Western Front in France and Belgium until Armistice in 1918. Australian personnel were awarded Imperial campaign medals. A number of nations issued their own version of the Victory Medal but Australians received the Victory Medal issued to British personnel ... "

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"Despite the war being over, and Australian troops not constituting part of the Allied occupying force in Germany, it was to be a long time before many Australians would return home ... "

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"Australia’s Great War was both unifying and divisive. The Anzac legend that celebrated soldiers’ achievements fostered national pride and confidence, but the war widened fissures based on class, religion, and ethnicity ... "

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"The 1915 Allied campaign at Gallipoli remains one of the most significant in our history. There has been a marked resurgence of interest in visiting Gallipoli by a growing number of Australians, in particular, many young people over the last decade. Indeed, for many young people it has become a rite of passage – an important milestone in their travels ..."

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"The war ended on 11 November 1918. The soldiers who returned home were very different from those who had left several years earlier. Some wives, mothers sisters and girlfriends didn’t even recognise their men as they came down the gangway ... "

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"The Gallipoli centenary provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the many wartime legacies – human, political, economic, military – that forged independent nations from former colonies and dominions ... "

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"There was no single definitive factor that caused the start of the First World War. Tensions throughout Europe had been growing for many years – nationalism, an arms race, disputes over territories and spheres of influence, greed, fear, distrust, and the division of Europe into two hostile alliances were all contributing factors ... "

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"Germaine Greer’s father never hugged her. Born just before the Second World War, Greer’s childhood was overshadowed by a father who had served in military intelligence and survived the protracted horrors of the German siege of Malta. He returned suffering the effects of anxiety disorders and near-starvation ... "

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"Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called ‘second generation of memory’, Australians again engaged in planting memorials on sites of memory on the Western Front. This article compares the two periods of memorial building..."

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"Australians have commemorated Anzac Day on 25 April for more than a century, but the ceremonies and their meanings have changed significantly since 1915."

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"On Sunday 11 November 2018, Queensland joined the nation, and the world, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice, or Armistice Day as it was also known"

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"This Queensland War Memorial Register is dedicated to the memory of the fallen and those who served Australia in the Armed Services. The Register honours service personnel that were drawn from Queensland communities."

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A comprehensive overview of the origins of the word "Anzac", its legal status and commemoration.

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"This paper will outline the origins of the first Australian Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC) which was founded in Brisbane on 10 January 1916, and trace the persistent efforts of that committee until 1930 when at last legislation was enacted to establish Anzac Day as the unchallenged sacred national day of mourning for the nation' s fallen."

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"This commemorative publication explores what life was like for Australians during World War I. Learn about Anzac Day and how to run your own commemorative ceremony."

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"The burial of the Unknown Soldier is a commemorative rite that originated after the First World War. "

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"Celebrating a myth, or a worthy obsession? UNSW academics examine the hype around Australia's alternative 'national day'."

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"Every year, Australia attends dawn services to commemorate Anzac Day. But as the years pass by new stories emerge, giving a different perspective on Australia’s ‘Baptism of Fire.’"

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"For years, Australians have faced a steady stream of investigative media reports about atrocities allegedly committed by the country’s most elite soldiers in Afghanistan."

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"One hundred years after the Gallipoli landings of April 1915, one of Australia’s leading historians has called for a change in the way the Anzac legend is commemorated." 2015

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"The Anzac legend remains firmly centred on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915, and the sacrifice of “sons and fathers” in frontline combat. The place of women in this foundational story is also made clear – that of onlookers and supporters."

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"This series comprises the War Diaries created by the units of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War....

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"In over 2000 interviews, this Archive encompasses our wartime history from World War One to Afghanistan. It includes the battlefront, the home front, media and entertainment, children, wives, workers and clerics. From signaller to Spitfire pilot, from SAS trooper to stoker, even to those who fought with us and against us; they are all represented in this collection. What you will find on these pages are those interviews, with transcripts."

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"57,705 Queenslanders served their country in the First World War from 1914 to 1918. These brave men and women, some of whom were just teenagers, wrote home about their experiences. A heartfelt letter home from a weary soldier in a muddy trench in Flanders. A hastily scrawled note from an exhausted nurse on Lemnos to her mother in Ballarat. These fragments of lives in turmoil can tell us more about the First World War than any history book ... "

"There are 32 letters and 16 photographs in this resource. All letters have been transcribed, and selected letters have an audio version too ... "

"We have marked the centenary of the war with an extensive programme, spanning a four-year period between 2014 and 2018 ... "