Australia at War - A Winter Record Made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres, During the Campaigns of 1916 and 1917

Australia at War by Will Dyson is an account of Australia's involvement in World War I at the Battle of Somme and the Battle of Ypres. Excerpt: "'M——' was very liberal to them with Hurley's whiskey—and they needed it. This sort of need for a drink is something that bears no relationship to anything you and I could ever know in a nicely regulated civilian life. It is of a world which the temperance die-hard has never envisaged, and in which the drink does nothing more criminal than making man more stoical…"