Home Front
As the war stretched on, thousands of women at home in Australia supported the war effort by volunteering for patriotic fundraising activities. Others, ardent pacifists, became active campaigners against conscription.
Women to the Front
Australian Women Doctors of the First World War At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undaunted, at least twenty-four Australian women doctors ignored official military policy and headed to the frontlines. This book explores the stories of the Australian women who served as surgeons, pathologists, anaesthetists and medical officers between 1914 and 1919. Despite saving hundreds of lives, their experiences are almost totally absent from official military records, both in Australia and Great Britain, and many of their achievements have remained invisible for over a century. Until now. Heather Sheard and Ruth Lee have compiled a fascinating and meticulously researched account of the Great War, seen through the eyes of these women and their essential work. From the Eastern to the Western Fronts, to Malta, and to London, we bear witness to the terrible conditions, the horrific injuries, the constant danger, and above all, the skill and courage displayed by this group of remarkable Australians. Women to the Front is a war story unlike any other.
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The Australian home front during WW1 - Anzac Commemoration Committee
On the home front - includes primary sources - State Library of NSW
The home front - State Library of Victoria
The damage inflicted on the home front by the Great War - Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Australian Dictionary of Biography - ANU
Propaganda - State Library of Victoria
Censorship and propaganda - University of Melbourne
Government powers during wartime - ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee
Internment camps - State Library of NSW
Roles of Australian women in WW1 - Department of Veteran Affairs
Women's role and place - ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee
Homefront - State Library of NSW
1918 - The Australians return home - Australian War Memorial
Returning soldiers - State Library of Victoria
The families of returning WWI veterans - Public Record office Victoria
Returned soldiers and psychological trauma in Australia during and after WWI - University of Wollongong
Soldier settlement - National Museum of Australia
Soldier settlement schemes - State Library of NSW
WWI, Australia's home front - Classroom Video
The Australian home front during WWI - ABC Education
ANZAC centenary - the home front - National Film and Sound Archive
