At the outbreak of war the Australians were signing up by the hundreds to serve ‘the mother country’ without conscription, but soon they began to realize that war wasn’t some romanticised adventure and the number of troops signing up began to slow down because they were learning more abou...
Prior to World War 1, Australians on the whole suffered due to their geographical isolation, which technology had yet to defeat. Transport was solely by arduous sea journey, which restricted travel and communication with the rest of the world. The mass transfer of Australian youth to fight in ...