This book is about the story of James Charles Martin who is the youngest known ANZAC soldier. The book starts on the 28th June 1915, when James sailed from Melbourne on the troopship Berrima heading for Gallipoli, he did this at the mere age of 14. Soldier Boy is James’ extraordinary story, the story of how an inexperienced and enthusiastic school boy became a brave ANZAC soldier. Only four months after leaving his home he was numbered among the dead, just one of the many soldiers who travelled halfway across the world for the chance to fight for their countries freedom. James Martin didn’t leave a lot on the record from which to see his life story, he only had six surviving letters home, the letter from the Matron Reddock describing his death and the condolence letter from his mate, Cec Hogan, all generously donated by Jim’s family to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
The legend of the ANZAC’s imply that the soldiers during World War One were courageous young men that proved themselves to be heroes. This legend has been greatly associated with the Gallipoli campaign that occurred in 1915-1916. This is despite the fact that a huge amount of the Australians soldiers that fought during the Gallipoli campaign also participated in the battles on the Western Front. It is to a large extent that battles such as Fromelles and Pozieres should feature more prominently in accounts of World War One. The battle of Fromelles is known as the worst 24 hours in Australia’s history.
When the news of war came in 1914, people in Australia greeted it with enthusiasm and naivety. According to McKernan, M., in The Australian People and The Great War, Australians lacked a sense of pessimism and fatalism that was found in the French, Russians and Irish. This, combined with the fact that Australians were often in the direct line of fire, had death tolls climbing upwards so rapid that by the end of 1916, the battalions were less than half strength. Consequently, opinions began to change and rather than being focused on defending the ‘Mother Country’, many started to question the purpose of sending soldiers to a war that was fought thousands of kilometers away from Australia. Enlistment rates, as a result, decreased after the initial burst of enthusiasm.
The role nurses played during the Civil War was truly an extensive one, as the war carried the most casualties in American history and so many more injuries. Despite their invaluable work, though, their experiences have not been related in depth. Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes by Joseph Brumgardt is a much-desired addition to the primary collection depicting the story of the United States medical corps during the Civil War. The book’s thesis claims that these men and women who served in the medical end of the conflict deserve attention as full participants in the war rather than as mere helpers of the main actors, more interesting than substantial. As evidence of this, the book focuses on the story of Hannah Ropes, who
The Anzac Spirit is a concept that suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ possess shared
Canadian Nurses are the Unspoken Heroes of the War Casualty numbers continue to rise as the Great War rages on in Europe, leaving Canadian Armed Medical Corp (CAMC) staff stretched and facilities full, according to a report released last Sunday. Tirelessly working in a chaotic environment sun rise to sun down, nursing sisters are the unspoken heroes of the war, their efforts largely unappreciated and unrecognized. Nicknamed “bluebirds” from their blue dresses, white aprons and sheer white veils, nurses in the CAMC are known as diligent individuals who risk their lives on a daily basis to serve and protect. Often placed on the frontlines of battle, nurses face exhausting, dangerous work on a daily basis, and are exposed to the effects of war
Barton exemplified courage and determination by doing this, as it was no easy task. She writes in a journal, “People talk like children about ‘transporting supplies’ as if it were the easiest thing imaginable to transport supplies by wagon thirty miles across a country scouted by guerrilla bands” (Hillstrom and Hillstrom 6). Through this short passage, Clara Barton identifies that bringing medical care to the field was not a simple task, indirectly glorifying her work even more and proving it an arduous task. This new idea of direct relief on the battlefield was a huge change in medical care and was exactly what soldiers needed. They would not have to wait to travel to a care center or hospital, likely not making it, to receive care.
“European nations began world war 1 with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches, the experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle , they treated it no longer as a positive quality but a dangerous illusion.” (Virginia Postrel) Many soldiers did not expect WW1 to be as gruesome as it was. “The War To End All Wars” changed the way people looked at war not just soldiers but the families and friends at home.
Life during the Gallipoli campaign defiantly had a major impact on the soldiers
Three Day Road is a novel written by Joseph Boyden, the novel was first published in March of 2005. The novel is about a native family from Ontario, where two of the family members travel to Europe “to do their part” in the Great War. The novel also tells a story about how the remaining family member experienced the war from “across the pond”, we can also read flashback of how life was for the family before the war, and the tragic story of the native people of Canada. The novel gives a good picture of how life was in the trenches for the common soldiers of WW1. This essay will discuss physical and psychology stress that was inflicted on the characters during the war.
What were the effects of the war on the soldiers who fought in it? The effects of war on these soldiers’ lives, had a very negative impact. Some of the effects were a lost generation, scarring the soldiers for life, causing them to lose their innocence, and to take other people’s lives. I’m going to synthesize and analyzes these three situations; in All Quiet on the Western the Front the main character is Paul Baumer, the movie Gallipoli the main character is Archie Hamilton, and the poem They. All of these situations are about what one certain soldier experience in World War 1.
Throughout the ages, wars have wreaked havoc and caused great destruction that lead to the loss of millions of lives. However, wars also have an immensely destructive effect on the individual soldier. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, one is able to see exactly to what extent soldiers suffered during World War 1 as well as the effect that war had on them. In this essay I will explain the effect that war has on young soldiers by referring to the loss of innocence of young soldiers, the disillusionment of the soldiers and the debasement of soldiers to animalistic men. Many soldiers entered World War 1 as innocent young boys, but as they experienced the full effect of the war they consequently lost their innocence.
The next character of the novel whose identity is changed due to World War II is the Canadian nurse Hana, the English Patient’s nurse who stays in the Villa. Before the war, Hana was just a regular Canadian school child. However, like what happens to so many others, the war disrupts her life with little notice. “She herself had been trained at Women’s College Hospital and then sent overseas during the Sicilian invasion” (Ondaatje 49).
In Jane Brody’s alarming article, “War Wounds That Time Alone Can’t Heal” Brody describes the intense and devastating pain some soldiers go through on a daily basis. These soldiers come home from a tragic time during war or, have vivid memories of unimaginable sufferings they began to experience in the battle field. As a result these soldiers suffer from, “emotional agony and self-destructive aftermath of moral injury…” (Brody). Moral injury has caused much emotional and physical pain for men and women from the war.
The story of women’s role in the War will be put away in a shelf. In the end, nurses liberate soldiers from suffering, holding candle lights, praying Lest We
