The War

Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian women at war. Nelson, 1984.
Beaumont, Joan, Broken Nation : Australia in the Great War. Allen & Unwin, 2014.
Bollard, Robert, In the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden History of Australia in World War 1. NewSouth Pub., 2013.
Dawe, J.N.I. and Robson, L.L. Citizen to Soldier : Australia Before the Great War : Recollections of Members of the First A.I.F. MUP, 1977.
De Loghe, Sydney, The Straits Impregnable. John Murray, 1917.
Gammage, Bill, The Broken Years : Australian Soldiers in the Great War. Penguin, 1990. c.1974.
McMullin, Ross, Pompey Elliott. Scribe, 2008. c.2002.
Stanley, Peter, Digger Smith and Australia’s Great War : Ordinary Name – Extraordinary Stories. Murdoch Books 2011.
McKernan, Michael, Padre : Australian chaplains in Gallipoli and France. Allen & Unwin, 1986.
Reynaud, Daniel, Anzac spirituality : the first AIF soldiers speak.Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2018.

Battalions

Corfield, Robin S, Give me back my dear old cobbers : the story of the 58th and 59th Australian Infantry Battalions 1913-1942. Corfield & Company, 2008.
Dean, Arthur and Gutteridge, Dean Eric W, The Seventh Battalion AIF. Resume of Activities of the Seventh Battalion in the Great War—1914-1918. 1933.
History of the 59th Btn. 1st AIF. 59th Battalion A.I.F. Association, 1968.
Wanliss, Newton, The history of the Fourteenth Battalion, AIF : being the story of the vicissitudes of an Australian unit during the Great War. Arrow Printery, 1929.

The War at Home

Bongiorno, Frank, ‘We cannot fight forever’: Australia, the First World War and the question of commitment Social Alternatives. Vol. 37, No. 3, 2018, 6-11.
Damousi, Joy, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. CUP, 1999.
Jalland, Pat, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia : War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. University of NSW Press, 2006.
Luckins, Tanja, The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War. Curtin University Books, 2004.
McKernan, Michael, The Australian People and the Great War. Collins, 1984.
— Victoria at War : 1914-1918. NewSouth Publishing, 2014.
McMullin, Ross, ‘Heartstrings Aching for the Absent Boy’: Years of Anguish—the Losses of War. Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 86, Number 1, June 2015, pp41-59.
Oppenheimer, MelanieAustralian Women and War, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 2008.
— The Power of Humanity : 100 years of Australian Red Cross 1914-2014. HarperCollins Australia, 2014.
Reynaud, Daniel, Celluloid Anzacs : the Great War through Australian cinema. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007.
Roberts, Jen, ‘The Front Comes Home: Returned Soldiers and Psychological Trauma in Australia during and after the First World War’ Health and history, 2015-01, Vol.17 (2), p.17-36.
Smart, Judith, ‘A divided national capital: Melbourne in the Great War.’ The La Trobe Journa,l No. 96, September 2015, pp.28-58.
Spittel, Christina, ‘‘The Deepest Sorrow in Their Hearts”: Grief and Mourning in Australian Novels about the Great War’, in When the Soldiers Return: November 2007 Conference Proceedings, (ed) Martin Crotty.
Stanley, Peter, The Crying Years : Australia’s Great War. NLA Publishing, 2017.
Ziino, Bart, ‘A lasting gift to his descendants. Family Memory and the Great War in Australia.’ History & Memory, Vol.22, No.2, Winter/Fall 2010, pp.125-146.
— ‘Enlistment and Non-enlistment in Wartime Australia: Responses to the 1916 Call to Arms Appeal’ Australian Historical Studies, 2010-06, Vol.41 (2), p.217-232.
—‘I feel I can no longer endure : Families and the limits of commitment in Australia. 1914-1918.’ in Endurance and the First World War : Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia, edited by David Monger, et al., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. Ch.7, pp.103-117.
— ‘At Home with the War: The Great War in Victorian Private Life. Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 86, Number 1, June 2015, pp. 7-25.
— ‘War and private sentiment in Australia during 1915.’ The La Trobe Journal, No. 96, September 2015, pp.88-102.
— ‘Eligible men: men, families and masculine duty in Great War Australia.’ History Australia, 2017, 14:2, 202-21.
— ‘They seem to understand all about the war: Australian children and the First World War.’ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, (v11.2) 2018, pp.227-247.

Conscription

Archer, Robin, et al. (eds) The conscription conflict and the Great War. Monash University Publishing, 2016.
Blackburn, Maurice, The Conscription Referendum of 1916. Anti-Conscription Celebration League, [1936?].
Kildea, Jeff, Australian Catholics and Conscription in the Great War. The Journal of Religious History, Vol. 26, No. 3, October 2002 pp.298-313.
— ‘Killing Conscription: the Easter Rising and Irish Catholic attitudes to the conscription debates in Australia, 1916-1917.’ Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 37-2 2016, pp.161-180.
— ‘Sectarianism, politics and Australia’s Catholics.’ The Sydney Papers, Winter 2002 pp.161-167.
— What Price Loyalty? Australian Catholics in the First World War. Australasian Catholic Record, 2019-01, Vol.96 (1), p.25-44.
Meaney, Neville, ‘Australian-Irish Catholics and Britishness: the problem of British “loyalty” and “identity” from the conscription crisis to the end of the Anglo-Irish war.’ Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 34 (2013) pp28-43.
Noone, Val, ‘Irish and Catholic opposition to conscription for World War I.’ Brunswick-Coburg Anti-Conscription Commemoration Campaign Conference, 20 May 2017.

Catholic and Irish

Campion, Edmund, Australian Catholics. Viking, 1987.
McDonald, Eleanor ,‘The Catholic Women’s League: the first twenty five years.’ Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 1981-01, Vol.7 (1), p.3-14.
Merrick, Catherine Anne, Ideals of piety : Lay Catholics and sodalities in Melbourne c.1900-1934. Master thesis, University of Melbourne, 1987.
O’Farrell, Patrick, The Irish in Australia. New South Wales University Press, 1987.
Sullivan, Tim, ‘An Illusion of Unity: Irish Australia, the Great War and the 1920 St Patrick’s Day Parade.’ Agora ,2020-04, Vol.55 (1), pp.24-31.
Overlack, Peter, ‘Easter 1916 in Dublin and the Australian press: Background and response.’ Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.21, 1997 – Issue 54-55 pp.188-193.

Biography

Moran, Herbert, Viewless Winds: being the recollections and digressions of an Australian surgeon. P. Davies, [1939].
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, Solid Bluestone Foundations: Memories of an Australian Girlhood. Penguin, 1986.
Freestone, Paul, His was the call. Part 1, 1915 : Brunswick’s Roll of Honour in the First World War 1914-1918. 2015.
McMullin, Ross, Pompey Elliott. Scribe Publications, 2008. c.2002.
— Farewell, Dear People : biographies of Australia’s lost generation. Scribe Publications, 2012.
— Life so full of promise : further biographies of Australia’s lost generation. Scribe Publications, 2023.

Coburg

Broome, Richard,Coburg, Between Two Creeks. Lothian, 1987.
Burchell, Laurie, Coburg: More of Our History. Coburg Historical Society, 1995.
— Coburg Memories. Coburg Historical Society, 1996.
— Coburg Chronicles. Moreland City Council 1998.
Coburg centenary 1839-1939, official souvenir : celebrations August – October, 1939. Coburg City Council 1939.
Coburg Oral History Group, Drawn from memory : images of Coburg. Coburg City Council, 1986.
Donati, Laura, Almost Pretty: A History of Sydney Road. Laura Donati, 2005.
Griffin, Cheryl, The Old Boys go to War. Coburg Historical Society, 2017.
— Fighting the Kaiser : Coburg and the First World War Website
Grove, Elisabeth & Donati, Laura, Loyal in all : centenary of Coburg High School 1916-2016. Coburg High School Historical Group, 2016.
Harman, G. W., This Fair City. [n.p.], 1969.
Historic Sydney Road : Brunswick and Coburg. Brunswick Community History Group : Coburg Historical Society 2002?
Miles, F G & Vivian, R A, Jubilee history of Brunswick : and illustrated handbook of Brunswick and Coburg. Periodicals Publishing Company, 1907.
Stainsby, Mary, Through a prism of mercy : one hundred years of the Coburg Convent of Mercy, 1903-2003. Melbourne Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, 2003.

Briagolong

Watt, Dorothy B, In Peace, as in War : Seventy-five Years of Red Cross Service at Briagolong. Briagolong Branch of the Red Cross Society, 1990.
Mills, Peter, Back to Briagolong. Briagolong Centenary Celebrations Committee, 1971.

Melbourne

Broome, Richard, Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960. Victoria Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 2016.
Chapman, Heather & Stillman, Judith, Melbourne Then and Now. Pavilion Books, 2014.

Fiction

Contemporary

Dennis, C.J. The Moods of Ginger Mick. Sydney University Press, 2009. C.1916.
— Digger Smith, Angus & Robertson, 1918.
— Rose of Spadgers. Cornstalk, 1924.
*Mann, Leonard, Flesh in Armour. Penguin, 2014. c.1932.
*Manning, Frederick, The Middle Parts of Fortune. Text, 2000. c.1929.
Martin, Boyd, When Blackbirds Sing. Text, 2014. c.1962.
McKinney, J.P. Crucible. BWM Books, 2012. c.1935.

Modern

Page, Geoff, Benton’s Conviction. Untapped, 2022. c.1985.
*Walker, Brenda, The Wing of Night. Penguin, 2007.
Walker, Shirley, The Ghost at the Wedding. Penguin, 2010.
Dinan, Jacqueline, A Woman’s War. Sid Harta Publishers, 2009.

*Highly recommended.