Prepared and put together by the Australian War Memorial this is a compilation of Johnny on the spot works which have been blended into actual reports. Starts off with Bardia 6th January 1941. My father was 6th division/19th brigade / 2/8th battalion Active Service: The Australian Army in the Middle East Forward by General Blamey, General Commanding the Australian Imperial Force in the Middle East. "The soldier of this war is akin to the soldier of the last war. Fundamentally, the characteristics of the Australian are those of his comrades from Britain and all the Dominions, although he has his own way of expressing them. There is, in fact, a Private Everyman, who endures, laughs, shares in the collective optimism that is typical of British armies, grumbles at times, faces fire with courage, quenches misery in a joke, and has a contempt for heroics. It is with these qualities and their back-ground of action that this book is chiefly concerned."
