Peter has published several books on the military social history of British India, including White Mutiny (1998), the first book on the British soldiers' protest of 1859-60 in Bengal and Die in Battle, Do not Despair (2015), the first book on Indians on Gallipoli. /rebates/2f97814596210152fBad-Characters-Sex-Crime-Murder-14596210182fplp&. In 2011 his book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian imperial Force, was jointly awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Formerly the Principal Historian at the Australian War Memorial, Australia's national military museum, he has published over thirty books, many in Australian military history, and especially on the world wars. In Bad Characters, military historian Peter Stanley surveys indiscipline in the Australian Imperial Force, on a spectrum ranging from 'bludging' and dumb insolence, though malingering and shirking, to military offences going beyond the force's celebrated 'larrikinism'. Peter Stanley of the University of NSW Canberra is one of Australia's most distinguished military-social historians. 'Terriers' in India, based on the abundant but almost untouched holdings of county archives and regimental museums mainly in southern English counties, tells their story for the first time. Instead of going to France, in 1914 they went to India, to release Regulars for the front. Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force Bad Characters is a very important new book. The Territorials never expected to serve abroad, but volunteered for 'Imperial Service' at Lord Kitchener's request.

Astonishingly, it has taken a century for a book on them to be written. AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War.

Bad Characters by Peter Stanley