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By Peter Stanley
Instructing tips to get the main from your event whilst vacationing an Australian battlefield, Peter Stanley—a veteran of battlefield study in Borneo, Egypt, Turkey, and France—advises the right way to arrange for and behavior battlefield learn. He offers wide-ranging and useful tricks and assistance, together with what to take, no matter if to move on my own or in a gaggle, the best way to remain secure, who to touch earlier than you cross, and the way to prevent getting ailing when you are there. Drawing on his personal vast event, and that of lots of his pals and associates, Peter sends an inspiring message to get out of the armchair and stroll the floor the place Australia's army heritage was once made.
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G. ) Matthew recommends the general advice in John Siseman and John Browlie’s Bushwalking and Touring in the Bogong High Plains as a useful guide to safe bushwalking, as relevant in the Baining Mountains of New Britain as the Brindabella Range in the ACT. Those contemplating walking the Papua New Guinea battlefields should first read the section ‘Facts for the bushwalker’ in Yvon Pérusse’s Bushwalking in Papua New Guinea, as well as Phil Bradley’s books on Shaggy Ridge and the Wau–Salamaua campaign and his contributions to the After the Battle series.
05 pt Garamond 3 by Bookhouse, Sydney Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In memory of those in whose footsteps we walk, and with thanks to my friends and colleagues in the Australian Army History Unit, who have allowed me to do so Contents Foreword Professor David Horner Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘Sniffing the ground’ Part 1 Battle plan: Why battlefield research? Part 2 Intelligence briefing: Where to go and why Part 3 Approach march: Planning your trip Part 4 Crossing the start-line: On the battlefield Part 5 Stand down: Home again Glossary Bibliography Index Foreword In November 1974 I set off to pre-independence Papua New Guinea to undertake research for what became my first book, Crisis of Command.
The more complex aims will also obviously demand more extensive preparation. An actual project might help to make the process clearer. My former colleagues Craig Tibbitts and Nick Fletcher are writing a history of the 56th Battalion, a run-of-the-mill AIF unit that served on the Western Front and which—curiously—has no published history, so far. Craig and Nick will fill that gap. Their list of the places they’ll be visiting, among Bapaume, Bullecourt, Villers-Bretonneux and Péronne, includes Louverval, Doignies and Polygon Wood, near Ieper (as the town of Ypres is now called).