Australian Battalion History

WW2 Battle Australian Battalion History Books were a portion of the principal Australian military war books to be distributed about Australia's military association in WWI. Toward the begin of World War One Australian Infantry Battalion troopers were enrolled from the Civil Militia Battalion Units. Resulting enlistment was organized on the Pals Battalions as contrived by Lord Kitchener. Kitchener perceived that men who were from the same region would be more disposed to join in the event that they were serving nearby their companions - men from the same town or state. This shaped a profound military brotherhood and mateship amongst the warriors.

There were some Australian military books composed preceding the completion of World War One. A portion of the most punctual were the ANZAC Gallipoli Books that were composed by Anzac crusade veterans. These Gallipoli war books were for the most part shaped from the journal kept by the diggers amid the Battle of Anzac. Books like, Love Letters of An Anzac (1916) by Oliver Hogue, Straits Impregnable (1917) by S. De Loghe and Over There With the Australians (1918) by R.H.Knyvett.

A vital special case was the ANZAC BOOK which was composed by the troops at Anzac amid the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign. The ANZAC BOOK was the thought Australia's preeminent military history specialist Charles Bean who around then was the War Correspondent at Anzac Cove. It was the main Australian war book to report the military records or recollections of the veterans of Gallipoli. At the point when distributed in 1916, the ANZAC BOOK that was to profit Patriotic Funds and early RSL Legacy developments, was exceptionally prominent. This military book introduced a feeling of recording chronicled military actualities amongst the troops of the Australian Imperial Forces AIF. Along these lines, even before the end of WWI Australian diggers were gathering data to be incorporated into their Battalion/Unit History Book. Men like Charles Bean (last to distribute the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 and enlivened the Australian War Memorial) and General Monash supported the gathering of war records to be incorporated into the Battalion History. In this manner it was not long after the end of World War One that the Australian Battalion History books began to show up.

A portion of the most punctual Battalion Regimental History Books were:

Whale Oil Guards 53rd Battalion by Chaplain Kennedy distributed 1919

History of The seventh Light Horse Regiment by Lt Col J D Richardson 1919

Westralian Cavalry in War - tenth Light Horse Regimental History by A.C. Long time past

With the 22nd Battalion AIF by Captain E Gorman 1919