216 pages, illustrated and including a list of publications. "Between 1914 and 1919, every troopship leaving Australia or returning to it produced a shipboard newspaper - the first recorded was The Latrine Leader and W.C Chronicle. The custom was continued in base camps, at Gallipoli, and in the trenches in France. As a record of Australian service life during the Great War, this material has an immediacy and spontaneity that cannot be found in any official history. Sometimes deeply moving, usually humorous, it offers insights into the experience of ordinary soldiers in extraordinary settings and at the same time illuminates contemporary Australian society." CONTENTS: 1. Outward bound on the 'Great Adventure' 2. 'A life on the ocean waves' 3. Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine 4. 'We're off to the sand and the sin tra-la' 5. The Western Front 6. 'We're here because we're here' 7. Going home 8. 'There's a long, long trail a-winding'