First Australian Imperial Force
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Sep 19, 2026
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Roger MelinNARRATOR
am sure be heartily welcomed by all who are interested in the welfare of the a i f previous publications have i know chronicled the incidents of our campaign in egypt and on the callipoli peninsula deeds in which the greatest courage determination and self-sacrifice have been displayed by our men from the southern seas many of whom alas have made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of justice and freedom chaplain greene's work will however be an interesting sequel in that he describes what one may call our second phase of operations on the western front here in france our australian troops have continued to show that magnificent bravery and spirit which has enabled them to undergo cheerfully the severest hardships and even to enhance their fine reputation as soldiers which now stand second to none in this huge army no words of mine can adequately express my admiration and affection for them i am proud to think that for nearly three years now i have been privileged to serve with them during which period they have made traditions which will live for all time in the history of australia i wish all success to chaplain greene in the publication of this book w r birdwood france may thirteenth nineteen seventeen for reasons known to the men of the australian imperial force i am always interested in meeting others who wear the green badge on their arm a good soldier is always as proud of the colours he wears on his shoulder as the colours he wears on his breast He knows that each brigade and battalion possesses a soul of its own, and he is proud to belong to this battalion and to worthily wear its colors.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
For these reasons, I ask the privilege of dedicating this book to the officers and men of the 1st and 14th Brigades.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Sister brigades they are, from the Mother State.
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Roger MelinNARRATOR
Workman, a leading scholar of England and one of the first authorities on medieval history.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
It was first thought of taking the college for an officer's training depot, but the War Office ultimately handed it over to the Australian Commonwealth.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
The Australian Imperial Force but continues the war record of this great college.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Of its 800 or more pre-war students who have attested, 735 are on active service, 47 have been killed in action, 23 wounded, 7 reported missing, and 3 are prisoners of war.
LucyNARRATOR
When the fighting ended, he performed what might have been his greatest feat.
LucyNARRATOR
He brought the entire Australian Imperial Force home.
LucyNARRATOR
All those men scattered across Europe, all those ships in short supply, all those logistical nightmares, he solved them one by one.
LucyNARRATOR
Within eight months, almost 160,000 soldiers were home.
TriciaGNARRATOR
W. R. Birdwood, France, May 13, 1917.
TriciaGNARRATOR
Forward for reasons known to the men of the australian imperial force i am always interested in meeting others who wear the green badge on their arm a good soldier is always as proud of the colours he wears on his shoulder as the colours he wears on his breast he knows that each brigade and battalion possesses a soul of its own and he is proud to belong to this battalion and to worthily wear its colors for these reasons i ask the privilege of dedicating this book to the officers and men of the first and fourteenth brigades sister brigades they are from the mother state with them i campaigned and for them i have a proud affection heroes of many a fight for those two brigades will stand out specially in australian history the story of the landing at anzac the battle of the lone pine poziers fromel la pomme and balcour some of the men drafted from the first to the fourteenth shared in the perils of gallipoli and all are associated with the fighting on the western front for them all i wish that they may fight on to the certain and glorious victory and have the luck to return to australia the land of sunshine and opportunity there to help in building up the commonwealth in harmony with the principles of freedom for which they are fighting in spite of necessary suppression or vagueness of names of localities my comrades of the fifty-fifth battalion to which i was attached will recognize many of the incidents described and i can only hope that reading what the padre has to say may cheer them in some lonely places or help them to be happy though miserable in some indifferent billets james green introduction and foreword CHAPTER I.
TriciaGNARRATOR
A QUIET NIGHT ON THE WESTERN FRONT We marched along, the sun was high, We marched along, the halt was nigh.
TriciaGNARRATOR
We marched along, a little parched, It seemed we marched, and marched, and marched.
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TriciaGNARRATOR
horse-ferry road carried this ancient traffic and was laid out by use very much the same as parmamatta road followed the tracks of the bullock teams along the ridge leading from sydney to parramatta and thus became in a casual way the first road in the history of the new nation under the southern cross the ancient archbishop never could in his wildest dreams foreshadow the time when hosts of british soldiers from the other side of the world would march along his narrow horse ferry road the building occupied by our headquarters is the westminster training college for teachers whose principal is dr workman a leading scholar of England and one of the first authorities on medieval history.
TriciaGNARRATOR
It was first thought of taking the college for an officer's training depot, but the War Office ultimately handed it over to the Australian Commonwealth.
TriciaGNARRATOR
The Australian Imperial Force but continues the war record of this great college.
TriciaGNARRATOR
Of its 800 or more pre-war students who have attested, 735 are on active service.
Paul ReedHOST
And that's not just true for listeners in the UK, because I know many of you who live across Commonwealth nations and in America have found similar connections on your doorstep too.
Paul ReedHOST
Streets in Australia named after AIF battles, places where New Zealand nurses embarked for the front, isolated Canadian memorials to soldiers who fell at Vimy Ridge, and statues of Doughboys who were killed in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Paul ReedHOST
It's all there for us to find, to connect to.
Paul ReedHOST
It's kind of in plain sight, and it helps us to remember, but more importantly, understand a subject like the Great War.
Terry WenhamHOST
There's one particular Australian that sparked my interest, and that's because we know so much about him.
Terry WenhamHOST
His name was Lance Corporal 548 Thomas Stevenson, serving with the 30th Battalion of the Australian Infantry, the AIF.
Terry WenhamHOST
And he's died on the 20th of November 1917 at the age of 38.
Terry WenhamHOST
He came from a place called Carrington in New South Wales, but lived in Wilcannia in New South Wales.
Terry WenhamHOST
The battalion travelled north by train to Billitz near Hazelbrook.
Terry WenhamHOST
And it was harvest time, and the men, when they weren't training, helped the local farmers.
Terry WenhamHOST
The battalion's historian was a man called Lieutenant Colonel Sloane, and he wrote how frustrated the men were because they'd been part of the AIF now for nearly a year, but they hadn't really been, well, they hadn't been involved in any of the fighting at all.
Terry WenhamHOST
He said, as we'd now served for almost 12 months without striking a blow at the enemy, very few regretted that the time had arrived for us to justify our existence as a unit of the AIF.
Tail DraggerHOST
He enlisted anyway.
Tail DraggerHOST
He went to Gallipoli with the Australian Imperial Force.
Tail DraggerHOST
And, in August of 1915 a shell fragment found his foot.
Tail DraggerHOST
They sent him home to heal.
JimmyHOST
Almost as soon as Richthofen's triplane hit the ground, Australian ground troops on the scene asserted that their fire had brought him down, not Roy Brown.
JimmyHOST
Several machine gun posts of the Australian Imperial Force were stationed along Richthofen's flight path near Morlhanzt Court Ridge, and they had engaged the low-flying red triplane.
JimmyHOST
Multiple soldiers claimed credit, but through the years, only one has been found to have any serious claim.
JimmyHOST
This claimant was Sergeant Cedric Popkin, an anti-aircraft Vickers machine gunner of the twenty-fourth Machine Gun Company, who fired at the triplane from the ground.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
In 1918, a writer named Zora Cross described his verse as excellent.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He had been rejected by the Australian Imperial Force as medically unfit, which meant he spent the war years working in theater and writing, watching the country he loved send its young men away.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
In 1917 and 1918, he played Dad Hayseed in three films made by Beaumont Smith.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He toured for a year with the distinguished English actress Marie Tempest.
Aaron PegramGUEST
I've had a keen academic interest in the First World War for well over 20 years now.
Aaron PegramGUEST
And much of the research and writing that I was doing was on the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front.
Aaron PegramGUEST
So I studied a lot about the tactics and operational learning and development from that campaign.
Aaron PegramGUEST
It's kind of interesting coming to Army because the First World War is always referenced in terms of trenches and mass casualties and good lessons of what not to do.
41 MINS LATER
Aaron PegramGUEST
It relates to the First World War.
Aaron PegramGUEST
We were looking at a site just near the village of Bouloucourt in northern France.
Aaron PegramGUEST
The Australian The Australian Imperial Force were involved in a series of engagements in this sector against the Imperial German Army throughout April and May 1917.
Aaron PegramGUEST
And there was something like 3,000 unrecovered war casualties from this particular sector.
Aaron PegramGUEST
I've had a keen academic interest in the First World War for well over 20 years now.
Aaron PegramGUEST
And much of the research and writing that I was doing was on the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front.
Aaron PegramGUEST
So I studied a lot about the tactics and operational learning and development from that campaign.
Aaron PegramGUEST
It's kind of interesting coming to Army because the First World War is always referenced in terms of trenches and mass casualties and good lessons of what not to do.
41 MINS LATER
Aaron PegramGUEST
It relates to the First World War.
Aaron PegramGUEST
We were looking at a site just near the village of Bouloucourt in northern France.
Aaron PegramGUEST
The Australian The Australian Imperial Force were involved in a series of engagements in this sector against the Imperial German Army throughout April and May 1917.
Aaron PegramGUEST
And there was something like 3,000 unrecovered war casualties from this particular sector.
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