{"id":1284,"date":"2022-01-03T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2022-01-03T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T21:03:20","slug":"david-harts-abc-of-anzac-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/david-harts-abc-of-anzac-history\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID HART’S “ABC OF ANZAC HISTORY”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Advertiser<\/em> of Monday, 31 March, 1997 had a front page article
\non an “ANZAC Day School Pack” which has been devloped by the Federal
\ngovernment and the Australian Army for use in schools on the eve of ANZAC
\nDay 1997. A key part of the pack is an “ABC” of key words designed
\nto “encourage young people to remember and appreciate the sacrifice
\nof veterans”. As a counter to the patriotic, uncritical and even absurd
\ngovernment-sponsored list I have prepared my own list (which is NOT to be
\nrecited in class but read and reflected upon in private).<\/p>\n

The government’s list was modelled on the original 1916 ANZAC Book<\/em> which I have online and on which I wrote an “illustrated essay” a short while ago. The soldiers who published that book drew up the original “ANZAC Alphabet” in two different versions, one by Henderson and one by “Ubique” (see below for the image of these lists). As I wrote in my illustrated essay on this <Art\/WarArt\/AnzacBook\/index.html>:<\/p>\n

An ANZAC Alphabet” by Henderson is one of the best loved illustrations in the ANZAC Book (pp. 115-18). It is a 4 page rhyming poem based upon the letters of the alphabet with rather crude illustrations of each letter of the alphabet along with a two line poem which illustrates various aspects of the soldiers’ life at Gallipoli. This was not the only ANZAC alphabet which appeared in the ANZAC Book. A second one “Another Attempt at an ANZAC Alphabet” (by “Ubique” [Latin for “everywhere”])  appeared a few pages later (pp. 146-47) but it was not illustrated and is less well known. It takes a roughly chronological approach to relating his experiences at Gallipoli and focuses more on the everyday hardships and fear faced by the soldiers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n

The Federal Government’s List<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

David Hart’s Alternatives<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

A<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Anzac<\/td>\nAmputation, Ace, Armistice, AIF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

B<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Bully beef<\/td>\nBoche, Brass hat, Barrage, Bayonet, Bolshevik Revolution, Bean (C.E.W.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

C<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Color (sic) patches<\/td>\nConscription, Comradeship, Conscientious Objector, Capital courts martial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

D<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Digger<\/td>\n“Donkey”, Dictatorship (of Ludendorf and Hindenberg), Death<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

E<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Enlistment<\/td>\nEmpire (British, French, German, Russian, Ottoman)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

F<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Friendship<\/td>\nFlanders’ fields, Fascism (and other ideologies of total war and the total
\nstate)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

G<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Gallipoli<\/td>\nGas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

H<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Home Front<\/td>\nHun, Heroes, “Home by Christmas”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

I<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Ice<\/td>\nImperial War Graves Commission, “Im Western Nichts Neues”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

J<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Jacka (Albert Jacka)<\/td>\nJ\u00fcnger (Ernst)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

K<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Kit<\/td>\nKaiser, King and Country, Karl Kraus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

L<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Letters home<\/td>\nLee Enfield rifle, “Lost Generation”, Live and Let Live System,
\nLangemarck, Legend of the ANZACs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

M<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Medals<\/td>\nMutiny, Machine Gun, Mitteleuropa, Militarism, Morley (John)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

N<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Nurses<\/td>\nNo Man’s Land, Nationalism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

O<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Observation<\/td>\n“Old Lie”, Over the Top<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

P<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Poppy<\/td>\nPasschendaele, Propaganda, Prosthesis, Poilu, Pacifism, Prostitutes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Q<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Questions<\/td>\nQuakers, “Questioning”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

R<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Rising Sun<\/td>\nRandom death<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

S<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Simpson and his donkey<\/td>\nShell shock, Strafing, Sport and War, Somme, “Storm of Steel”,
\nSoldier Settlers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

T<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier<\/td>\nTrench foot, Total War, Thirty Years War of the 20thC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

U<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Uniforms<\/td>\nUnknown Soldier, “Under Fire”, Unconditional Surrender<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

V<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Villiers Brettoneux<\/td>\nVAD, Versailles, Verdun, VC, VD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

W<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

War memorials<\/td>\nWar Socialism, War Widows, Western Front<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

X<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Xenyl chloride<\/td>\nXenophon (classical defender of the “Old Lie”)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Y<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Years apart from family and friends<\/td>\nYpres<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Z<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

is for<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Zimmerman<\/td>\nZeppelin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

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