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Soldiers and aliens, men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War II, June Factor

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Soldiers and aliens, men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War II, June Factor

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraitsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soldiers and aliens

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

June Factor

Sub title

men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War II

Summary

A forgotten history of the remarkable contribution of non-British subjects to Australia in World War II. Four thousand Australian soldiers in World War II who signed up for service were never to fire a weapon. Their work was essential for the war effort, but they were 'aliens', non-British subjects, all born in other countries. Scholars and peasants, musicians and factory workers, communists and royalists, Jews and Catholics, animists and atheists, they all laboured under standard strict Army regulations, living in tents and huts, loading and unloading trains, working the wharves, cutting timber and transporting goods. They raised money for good causes, gave public concerts and staged theatre performances. And every day they feared for loved ones caught up in the horror of occupied Europe and Asia. They were a multicultural force in the Army long before the term 'multicultural' was coined

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Soldiers and Aliens, Men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War 2

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