World War I: Other Battles

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"The Western Front Campaign is often said to be one of the darkest periods of the First World War. In March 1916, after Gallipoli, the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) were sent to France to the conflict on the Western Front, where the war was bogged down in trenches and mud ... "

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"The Western Front, which ran across the industrial regions of France and Belgium, was one of the most important battlegrounds during the First World War ... " Follow links to other useful pages on this Queensland Government site.

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This PDF provides useful information for teachers and students. In particular, Chapter 11 Commemoration, will contain relevant information.

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"One hundred years ago Australia established the Repatriation Department to undertake the massive task of ‘restoring men to health’ after the First World War ... "

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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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"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 ... "

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"The diggers' victory in Villers-Bretonneux earned the eternal gratitude of the French people. Though the battle lasted just one night, more than 1,000 Australian soldiers died retaking the village in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. Michael Troy looks back at Australia's campaigns on the Western Front, including the other great battle associated with ANZAC Day ... "

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"The lush green beauty of the country impressed the Australians who had spent months in the desert heat of Egypt and on the dry steep cliffs of Gallipoli ... "

"These short films draw on interviews with Australian veterans and historians, archival footage, and photographs to highlight many different service stories from World War 1 ... "

"ne winter’s morning a decade ago while in the late stages of archival research for a book about the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during the first world war, I came across a file that would forever alter my perspective on Anzac mythology ... "

"Following failed Turkish attempts to capture and destroy the Suez Canal supply route in 1915 and 1916, the Allies advanced eastwards, out of the difficult desert country of the Sinai and into Palestine ... "

"Most of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) went to France in 1916 after the Gallipoli Campaign. But the mounted units remained in Egypt to continue the fight against the Ottoman Army. The Ottoman threat to the Suez Canal ended with the Allied victory at Romani in August 1916. Then the Australians and other units in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) advanced into Ottoman territory. In 1917, the troops entered Palestine. In 1918, the EEF advanced into modern-day Jordan and Syria. The campaign ended on 31 October 1918, a few weeks after the capture of Damascus ..."

"With the main focus on the Western Front, the Middle East campaign was regarded as a sideshow. Despite this, the campaign had an air of romance and created the legend of the Australian Light Horse ... "

"In March 1916 the ANZAC Mounted Division (1st, 2nd and 3rd Light Horse Brigades and New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade) was formed in Egypt under the command of Major General (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Harry G. Chauvel. In August, as part of the British and allied forces, the Division defeated a Turkish advance to Romani, and forced the enemy back to the line Gaza-Beersheba ... "

"From 1916, Australian troops served with Allied forces throughout the Middle East, mainly taking part in action against the Ottoman Empire. Over three years Australian troops and the Australian Flying Corps served in Egypt, Palestine and the territories now known as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. To protect vital shipping routes, the Allied campaign aimed to defend the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula ... "

"Mounted on horseback in their wide-brimmed hats, the regiments of Australian light horse have often been depicted as the national arm of young Australia and the inheritors of the bushman spirit ... "

"Gallipoli made ANZAC famous, but Australians and New Zealanders also fought side by side in the cradle of civilisation ... "

"It was Australia’s first great World War I victory and history's last great cavalry charge. So why has it been forgotten in favour of the tragic defeat at Gallipoli? ... "

"The charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917, is remembered as the last great cavalry charge ... "

"The British Empire and the Ottoman Empire fought in Mesopotamia from 1914 to 1918. The Allied force included British and Indian troops and some Australians and New Zealanders. Many men died from disease and the harsh climate. Two Australian units served in the campaign: the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron and the Mesopotamia Half Flight (Australian Flying Corps) ... "

"These short films draw on interviews with Australian veterans and historians, archival footage, and photographs to highlight many different service stories from World War 1 ... "