Accommodating the King's hard bargain : military detention in the Australian army 1914 - 1947 / Graham Wilson.

Collection type	Library
Author	Wilson, Graham, author.;
Call Number	355.13320994 W748a
Document type	Monograph
Pagination	706 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white portraits ; 24 cm.
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-683), end notes (pages 590-654) and index. Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King?s Hard Bargain tells the gritty story of military detention and punishment dating from colonial times with a focus on the system rather than the individual soldier. World War I was Australia?s first experience of a mass army and the detention experience was complex, encompassing short and long-term detention, from punishment in the field to incarceration in British and Australian military detention facilities. The World War II experience was similarly complex, with detention facilities in England, Palestine and Malaya, mainland Australia and New Guinea. Eventually the management of army detention would become the purview of an in dependent, specialist service. With the end of the war, the army reconsidered detention and, based on lessons learned, established a single ?corrective establishment?, its emphasis on rehabilitation. As Accommodating The King?s Hard Bargain graphically il lustrates, the road from colonial experience to today?s triservice corrective establishment was long and rocky. Armies are powerful instruments, but also fragile entities, their capability resting on discipline. It is in pursuit of this war-winning intang ible that detention facilities are considered necessary ? a necessity that continues in the modern army.

Abstract

Military Punishment -- The Australian experience from 1870 to the outbreak of World War I -- An outline of Australian military law and discipline in World War I -- World War I - Australia -- World War 1 German New Guinea -- World War I - the Middle East - - World War I-Europe -- World War I - the United Kingdom -- The AIF Detention Barrack in World War I -- Between the Wars -- World War II - introduction and detention facilities overseas (UK, Middle East, Malaya) -- World War II - Detention in Australia -- World War II -Australian Detention Barracks -- World War II - Australian Guard Compounds and Field Punishment Centres -- Post-World War II- Japan, Korea, Malaya/Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and the road to DFCE ? Appendices : Colonial Military Legislatio n -- The Citadel of Cairo -- Report on the Moascar Field Punishment Compound -- AMF Detention Facilities World War II -- War Establishments-AMF Detention Facilities World War II -- The Commonwealth Experience in World War II -- Glossary -- The 24 Hour Clo ck -- Army Ranks -- Insignia Worn by Detention Staff in both World Wars.