“We refused to work until we had better means for handling the bodies”. Discipline at the Australian Graves DetachmentFootnote^*
* This article has benefited from the insightful comments and suggestions of anonymous reviewers whom I would like to thank heartily. I also received feedback on this work at the Flinders University History Seminar in May 2017, and would like to express my gratitude to my colleagues Johanna Conterio, Matt Fitzpatrick, Prudence Flowers, Carol Fort, Catherine Kevin, Peter Monteath, Andrekos Varnava and Christine Winter for their thoughtful input. Colleagues at the Australian Historical Association’s annual conference in July 2017 and at the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar at the University of Oxford in January 2018 also helped me refine my work and select an angle through which to study the Detachment. Thanks are also due to Melanie Oppenheimer and Guillaume Piketty for their detailed comments on my work. In particular, I am indebted to Martin Crotty for the honest and knowledgeable feedback he provided me with on earlier drafts of this article. Last but not least, I wish to acknowledge that this article has benefited from the research conducted for a project which received funding from Flinders University’s DVC-R portfolio.

Romain FathiCollege of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia;Centre d’Histoire Sciences Po, Paris, FranceCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]

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