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Those we forget : recounting Australian casualties of the First World War / David Noonan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noonan, David C., author.
- Series:
- History series (Melbourne University Press)
- History series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--Australia.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--Research.
- World War, 1914-1918--Casualties--Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2014.
- Summary:
- "The official Australian casualty statistics suffered by the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significant inaccuracies and omissions. Groundbreaking research exhaustively examining over 12,000 individual soldiers' records has revealed that hospitalisations for wounding, illness and injury suffered by men of the AIF are five times greater than officially acknowledged today. Why has it taken nearly one hundred years for this to come to light? Was it a conspiracy to suppress the toll, incompetence of Australia's official war historians Bean and Butler, or was it simply the unquestioning acceptance of the official record? You are invited on the journey in this book to find the truth. The findings are startling and will rewrite Australia's casualty statistics of the First World War. Lest we forget."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Those We Forget
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Chapter 1 Tracking the Sources of the Official Figures
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Definitions and Statistical Methodologies for Assessing War Casualties
- Chapter 3 Counting the Diggers (1): Enlistments and Embarkations
- Chapter 4 Counting the Diggers (2): Specific Medical Conditions
- Chapter 5 Counting the Diggers (3): Multiple Examples of Harm
- Chapter 6 Those We Forget: Total Australian Casualties of the First World War
- Enlistments and Embarkations
- War Deaths
- Non-Battle Deaths
- Prisoners of War
- War Wounding and Shell Shock
- War Injury
- War Illness
- Venereal Disease
- Total Number of Hospitalisations
- Not Hospitalised
- Discharged Medically Unfit
- Officers
- Survivability and Risk
- Chapter 7 Some Comparisons in this Global War
- United States of America
- Britain
- Germany
- France
- Canada
- Summary
- Chapter 8 The Post-War Impacts: Those We Forget
- Post-War Death
- Post-War Disability
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 1493619306
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