Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Foundations of Anzac
Digger
First to fall
The forgotten island
The silent Anzac
The first day on Gallipoli
Talk about go!
The landing
Parables of Anzac
Silence of the guns
Furphy
Leaving Gallipoli
At Pozières
We did all that was asked of us
The charge at Beersheba
Heroes of Anzac
They just poured into the wards all day
Everyone was as cheerful as possible
Private Punch
A soldier of the cross
Fromelles
The Australians are here!
The Roo de Kanga
The only gleams of sunshine
The underground artillery
Matilda goes to war
Tobruk Rats
‘Bluey’ Truscott
Angels of the Owen Stanley Range
Australia’s secret submariners
The home front
Scots of the Riverina
The Durban Signaller
The chalk Rising Sun
Blighty
Homecoming
Very irritated
Death’s soldier
A stitch in time
The Nackeroos
Yanks Down Under
The Brisbane Line
Miss Luckman’s journal
Laughter
A million cat-calls
The Pommies and the Yanks
Religion
Monocles
Food and drink
Babbling brooks
Army biscuits
The casual digger
Officers
Birdie
The piece of paper
Baldy becomes mobile
Characters
‘The Unofficial History of the AIF’
Please Let Us Take Tobruk
Parable of the kit inspection
The Air Force wife
Legends of Anzac
The Eureka sword
The lost submarine
The vanished battalion
The two men with donkeys
Murphy’s daughter
The souvenir king
The crucified soldier
The walers
ANZAC to Anzac
Anzac and the Rising Sun
The first and the last
Memories
No. 008 Trooper J. Redgum
The first Anzac Days
Return to Gallipoli
After the war
The lonely Anzac
The longest memorial
The lone pines
Mrs Kim’s commemoration
The long aftermath of Fromelles
The Unknown Sailor
The Long Tan cross
Flowers of remembrance
The lady of violets
Sound and silence
Hugo Throssell’s VC
Do you remember?
Select sources and references
Picture credits