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Some Australian women were also able to enlist the French and eventually the British militaries. The most senior Australian woman in military service during the war was Maud McCarthy, the British Expeditionary Force Matron-in-Chief for France and Flanders. Australian women also played a significant role on the Australian home front.
Pages in category "Australian military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,068 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Australian women who participated in World War I. Pages in category "Australian women of World War I" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total.
The Australians were relieved on 11 June, but before this took place a patrol from the 50th helped soldiers from the British 11th Division occupy Delporte Farm. [8] In late September, during the fighting around Polygon Wood, the battalion took part in the 13th Brigade's attack against the Tokio Spur.
They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during WWI. An inscription thereon reads, “This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women”. [48] There are 1,513 names listed on the screens. [49]
ANZAC Girls is an Australian television drama series that first screened on ABC1 on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Alexandria, Lemnos, and the Western Front during the First World War. [1]
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.
The weaponry and equipment of the Australian Army had mostly been standardised on that used by the British Army prior to the outbreak of World War I. [166] Meanwhile, in the years prior to the war basic defence industries had been established in Australia for the production of uniforms, webbing, boots, small arms and explosives and ammunition ...