Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters
As the world marks the centenaries of the First World War, we still know remarkably little about the life course effects of military service. This paper reports on the first iteration of a cradle-to-grave dataset of men who enlisted and served overseas in the First World War from the state of Victor...
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| description | As the world marks the centenaries of the First World War, we still know remarkably little about the life course effects of military service. This paper reports on the first iteration of a cradle-to-grave dataset of men who enlisted and served overseas in the First World War from the state of Victoria, Australia. It examines mortality during military service and in civilian life and finds that mortality in both cases was strongly correlated with individual characteristics. Tall men and young single men were more likely to die in the war. In civilian life, mortality followed closely the pattern for Australian men, and was again highly correlated with individual characteristics and social class. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-373e979a67314ea0af64742428a0f3402025-02-02T19:32:59ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432019-12-0185272Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early EnlistersJanet McCalman0Rebecca Kippen1Joan McMeeken2John Hopper3Michael Reade4University of MelbourneMonash UniversityUniversity of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneUniversity of QueenslandAs the world marks the centenaries of the First World War, we still know remarkably little about the life course effects of military service. This paper reports on the first iteration of a cradle-to-grave dataset of men who enlisted and served overseas in the First World War from the state of Victoria, Australia. It examines mortality during military service and in civilian life and finds that mortality in both cases was strongly correlated with individual characteristics. Tall men and young single men were more likely to die in the war. In civilian life, mortality followed closely the pattern for Australian men, and was again highly correlated with individual characteristics and social class.http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2019-0003?locatt=view:masterwar traumaresiliencesocial classtoxic stressearly life effectsfirst world war |
| spellingShingle | Janet McCalman Rebecca Kippen Joan McMeeken John Hopper Michael Reade Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters Historical Life Course Studies war trauma resilience social class toxic stress early life effects first world war |
| title | Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters |
| title_full | Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters |
| title_fullStr | Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters |
| title_short | Early Results From the ‘Diggers to Veterans’ Longitudinal Study of Australian Men who Served in the First World War. Short- and Long-Term Mortality of Early Enlisters |
| title_sort | early results from the diggers to veterans longitudinal study of australian men who served in the first world war short and long term mortality of early enlisters |
| topic | war trauma resilience social class toxic stress early life effects first world war |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2019-0003?locatt=view:master |
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