They know practically nothing: The AIF's learning between Gallipoli and the Western Front

In this presentation, Aimee Fox asks 'Did the Australians know practically nothing, did they learn anything useful from their time in Egypt and Gallipoli?'
The starting point is a quotation from a general, who wrote in February 1916 "The Australians frankly terrify me. Their want of discipline is something awful, and after all the laudatory accounts of their doings as soldiers which have appeared in the press for the past year or so, it is very difficult to convince them that for the purposes of fighting in France they know practically nothing!"

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