Modern History Stage 6 Syllabus



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Commemorative Roll


Records the names of those who died in wars who were not eligible for inclusion on the Roll of Honour. These include those who died while serving as members of other allied forces, the Merchant Navy, Australian Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Fund, YMCA, war correspondents, photographers and other workers.

War graves and memorials registers

These registers show the location of the individual’s place of burial or commemoration.


Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau (1DRL/0428)

These files include eyewitness accounts of the deaths of servicemen investigated by the Red Cross.



The National Archives of Australia


Personnel files of individual soldiers can be accessed on the website and/or ordered as hard copy. These files are a good place to begin research as they include attestation papers (enlistment papers) providing name, place born, occupation, age, next of kin, religion and appearance. It may also include some medical records, letters from family inquiring about their fate, details of their return to Australia etc.

Personnel files are available for the AIF, Australian Flying Corps, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, the Australian Army Nursing Service etc.


Official Government records may also be accessed from the National Archives.

Other relevant documents such as soldiers’ diaries, sketchbooks and photographs are held in the NSW State Library.




A word of caution

Many documents that can be accessed from both the War Memorial and the National Archives are not always complete and our research is only as reliable as our sources. The documents may be incomplete, biased or limited in scope.

The following are other problems that may be encountered in researching military documents:


  • Some soldiers may have been left off official lists, eg the Roll of Honour or the Nominal Roll. There may be omissions and inaccuracies in the rolls.

  • There may be confusion of names, misspelt names, inaccurate background details, falsified information such as names, ages or marital status. There are sometimes also inaccuracies in service numbers.

  • Accounts of individual’s roles in battle may have been exaggerated, falsified or show elements of ‘big-noting’. (See Robin Gerster’s Big-noting. The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing, Melbourne University Press, 1987).

  • Eyewitness accounts may not always be accurate. In the heat of battle there are cases of mistaken identity and many accounts of a man’s death were later shown to have been mistaken. (See J. Lawless: ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, Teaching History, Journal of the History Teachers Association of NSW, March, 2005).



From the collection of the National Archives of Australia, B2455, Gordon AK


From the collection of the National Archives of Australia, B2455, Gordon AK


4.2 Bibliographies for the Personalities in the Twentieth Century

These are suggestions only and teachers need to evaluate them for their usefulness.



YASSER ARAFAT
Books

Aburish, Said K, Arafat: From Defender to Dictator, Bloomsbury Press, New York and London, 1998 (Critical interpretation of Arafat’s cultural background)

Ashrawi, Hanan, This Side of Peace: A Personal Account, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995

Gowers, Andrew and Walker, Tony, Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution, W.H. Allen, London, 1990

Gowers, Andrew, Arafat. The Biography, Virgin Books, London, 1994

Hart, Alan, Arafat: A Political Biography, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1994 (Sympathetic account largely dependent on many interviews with Arafat)

Hart, Alan, Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker?, Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1984

Laqueur, Walter, and Rubin, Barry (ed.) The Israel–Arab Reader. A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, Penguin, New York, 1995

Mishal, S, The PLO under Arafat: Between Gun and Olive Branch, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986

Perry, Mark, A Fire in Zion. The Israeli–Palestinian Search for Peace, Morrow, New York, 1994 (The background since 1988 by a well-informed journalist)

Rubin, Barry and Judith Colp, Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003

Wallach, John and Janet, Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder, Lyle Stuart, New York, 1990

Said, Edward W, Peace and Its Discontents. Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Process. Vintage PB, New York, 1995 (Critique of the Oslo Accords by a leading Palestinian–American intellectual)

Tessler, Mark, A History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994 (scholarly and balanced).


Internet Resources

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/middle_east/87713.stm

JOSEPH BENEDICT CHIFLEY



Works by Chifley

Chifley, J.B, Things Worth Fighting For, Speeches by Joseph Benedict Chifley, Melbourne University Press, 1953


Books

Bennett, Scott, J.B. Chifley, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973

Crisp, L.F, Ben Chifley: A Political Biography, Longmans, Croydon, Victoria, 1961

Day, David, Chifley, Harper Collins, 2001

Johnson, Carol, The Labor Legacy: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1989.

Leyden, P, Joseph Benedict Chifley, Australian Schools Press, Sydney, 1963

McMullin, Ross, The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party, 1891–1991, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991

Articles

Beazley, K.E, [in two parts], 'Part 1: Chifley Succeeds Curtin', Canberra Times, 8 March 1966: 8, 'Part 2: Chifley and the Banks', Canberra Times, 9 March 1966, p 22

Breen, Harold, 'J.B. Chifley', Twentieth Century, v.28, Autumn 1974, pp 26–45

Daly, Fred, 'Unforgettable Ben Chifley', Reader's Digest, November 1978, pp 46–51.



Dictionary of National Biography, 1951–60, Oxford University Press, London, 1971, pp 215–18

'From Unionist to Prime Minister', Australia's Heritage, v.6, pt.88, 1972, pp 2109–12

Green, Frank, 'Chifley – and the Mission that Failed, Sun-Herald, 7 June 1959, pp 39, 80

'Obituaries from The Times 1951–60', Newspaper Archive Developments Ltd, Reading, 1979, p 143

Palmer, Vance, 'The Labor Leader: Joseph Benedict Chifley' in National Portraits (3rd edn), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960, pp 206–13

Smith, John, 'J.B. Chifley's Ancestors', Newsletter, Bathurst District Historical Society, no.23, 1984, p 4

Thompson, J.J.M, 'J.B. Chifley' in Five to Remember, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1964, pp 55–89



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