The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall

Author:Matthew Haultain-Gall [Haultain-Gall, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, War, World War I, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand
ISBN: 9781922464088
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Published: 2021-07-01T01:00:00+00:00

Pozières still held a magnetic attraction for Bean, and he devoted most of his initial report to describing the battlefield and reminiscing about the scenes he had witnessed in 1916. Three-quarters of the way through the report, he admitted he was indulging his own specific interests – ‘I have only mentioned the landmarks at Pozières’ – but by then, he had only left enough space to half-heartedly name several other sites he visited.41 His account was published in a major paper, but unlike much of his earlier work, it was an overwhelmingly sentimental piece that did not attempt to place his wanderings within the broader narrative of the First World War. Written in such a way, Bean’s and other veterans’ accounts resonated little with the growing number of Australians to whom names like Pozières and Mouquet Farm were completely foreign.

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