About the Author

Dr Meleah Hampton is an historian in the Military History Section, Australian War Memorial, where she has worked since March 2013. She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and completed her PhD with a thesis on the 1916 battles for Pozieres and Mouquet Farm. Her primary interest is in the operational conduct of the First World War on the Western Front. She is a member of the editorial staff of the Memorial's magazine, Wartime, and continues to research and write biographies for the Last Post Ceremony project.