Cirrus@Austlit

A record of Australian service life during the Great War, this book examines the soldiers' writings contained in their trench and troopship papers and magazines. These field publications ranged from handwritten sheets to professionally printed souvenir issues, recording poetry, prose, letters and diaries describing the experiences and of the men who served in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.).
While valuable from an historical and social point of view, the material contained in this book has important literary merit, because the troopship magazines reveal the hopes, aspirations and changing attitudes of volunteer soldiers during World War 1.
The poetry and prose, most of which was written anonymously, has not been indexed.