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List of Australian writers by type. List of Australian diarists of World War I; List of Australian diarists of World War I (A-G) List of Australian diarists of World War I (H-N) List of Australian diarists of World War I (O-Z) List of Indigenous Australian writers; List of Australian novelists; List of Australian poets; List of Australian women ...
Many Australians, for example, wrote about the Australian flora, and how they missed it. Many of these poets served in more than one campaign, while others only served in one, either joining up after Gallipoli, or being invalided back home or killed in action. A small listing of Australian Great War Poets can be seen below.
John Alfred Charles Laffin was born on 21 September 1922 at Mosman, Sydney, Australia. [1] Both of his parents had served with the British Imperial military forces in World War I, his father as a commissioned infantry officer, and his mother as a nurse.
B Rolf Boldrewood Gregory Victor Babic (1963–2013) Elizabeth Backhouse (1917–2013) Van Badham (born 1974) Murray Bail (born 1941) Allan Baillie (born 1943) Margaret Balderson (born 1935) Faith Bandler (1918–2015) Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) Robert G. Barrett (1942–2012) John Arthur Barry (1850–1911) Max Barry (born 1973) Catherine Bateson (born 1960) Alan Baxter (born 1970) John ...
Ion Llewellyn Idriess OBE (20 September 1889 – 6 June 1979) was a prolific and influential Australian author. [1] He wrote more than 50 books over 43 years between 1927 and 1969 – an average of one book every 10 months, and twice published three books in one year (1932 and 1940). His first book was Madman's Island, published in 1927 at the ...
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australian involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by C. E. W. Bean , who also wrote six of the volumes and was published between 1920 and 1942.
Joan Errington Beaumont, AM, FASSA (born 25 October 1948) is an Australian historian and academic, who specialises in foreign policy and the Australian experience of war. She is professor emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University .
Forty Thousand Horsemen (aka 40,000 Horsemen) is a 1940 Australian war film directed by Charles Chauvel. The film tells the story of the Australian Light Horse (mounted rifleman as distinct from cavalry) which operated in the desert at the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I. It follows the adventures of three rowdy heroes in ...