The Soldier as Tourist: The Australian Experience of the Great War

Authors

Richard White

Abstract

Foreign travel is commonly an accompaniment to war, but it tends to be seen - by commanders and historians though not always by the participants - as peripheral, incidental to the primary experience of battle. This article suggests, somewhat speculatively, that in the case of the Australians in the First World War, travel was more than fortuitous; that indeed one aspect of travel, a well-established tourist ethos, had a direct impact on the way the troops reacted to the face of battle.1

Recommended Citation

White, Richard, The Soldier as Tourist: The Australian Experience of the Great War, Kunapipi, 18(2), 1996.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol18/iss2/15