- Title
- Battlefield tourism and Australian national identity: Gallipoli and the Western Front
- Creator
- Winter, Caroline
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64107
- Identifier
- vital:5070
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-415-57277-4
- Abstract
- In 1914, a little over a decade after federation in 1901, Australia followed the British Empire into the Great War of 1914–18. Many Australians saw the war as an opportunity for the fledgling nation and her citizens to prove their collective and individual worth on the global stage. Enlistment was voluntary throughout the war, and about half of the eligible population, a total of 416,809, signed up to the AIF (Australian Imperial Force). The proportion of casualties to embarkations was over 65 per cent (compared with approximately 52 per cent for Britain): 153,509 people returned wounded or gassed and 61,829 were killed (AWM 2010; Inglis 2005)
- Publisher
- UK Routledge
- Relation
- Tourism and national identities p. 176-189
- Rights
- Copyright Routledge
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Tourism; Travel
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