Beyond Combat: Australian military activity away from the battlefield

by Tristan Moss, Tom Richardson

Overview

Beyond Combat is a wide-ranging examination of military operations away from the battlefield. From an army nurse's letters home during the First World War, to military families in Southeast Asia during the Cold War, to recovering air force war dead, to the experiences of LGBTI soldiers, there is a lot more to military life than war. Contributions from historians and military personnel, Beyond Combat reveals important aspects of military history too often overlooked.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742244280
Publisher:	UNSW Press
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	842 KB

About the Author

Tristan Moss' first book, Guarding the Periphery: the Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Tom Richardson's first book, Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966-1972 was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix

1 Missing in action: non-combat military activities and history Tristan Moss Tom Richardson 1

Managing Soldiers And Their Families

2 Bring the family: Australia's overseas military communities and regional engagement, 1945-1988 Christina Twomey 10

3 From witch-hunts to pride balls: the ADF and LGBTI service personnel Noah Riseman 29

4 Sexuality at a cost: lesbian servicewomen in the Australian military, 1960s-1980s Shirleene Robinson 45

Military Education

5 Chalkies and civics: teaching the military in Papua New Guinea, 1966-1972 Tristan Moss 60

6 Training for the enduring human dimension of war Clare O'Neill 72

7 Military education: establishing the Diploma of Military Science, 1907-1915 William Westerman 90

Caring For The Soldiers

8 The lousy business of war: lice-infested uniforms and British preventive medicine in the First World War Georgia McWhinney 106

9 'My dearest girls': letters from Australian Army nurses Jaclyn Hopkins 120

10 From bully beef to crème caramel: feeding the troops Alison Wishart 137

11 From front line to rear echelon: Australia's Army bands after the Second World War Anthea Skinner 153

Remembrance And The Dead

12 Search, recovery and 'closure': the Royal Australian Air Force and its missing from wars of the 20^th century John Moremon 168

13 Morphing vessels into artifacts Benjamin Hruska 185

14 Singapore's 'new' military history: a military history from a non-war fighting past Qng Weichong 202

Notes 215

Acknowledgments 242

Index 243