Books by Meleah Hampton

Dr. Meleah Hampton is an historian in the Military History Section of the Australian War Memorial. Her primary interest is in the operational conduct of the Great War on the Western Front, with a particular interest in the process of learning, applying and transmitting lessons learned in the field of battle. 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 under the guidance of Professors Robin Prior and Gary Sheffield. In 2009 Meleah Hampton was a Summer Scholar at the Australian War Memorial, completing a research paper on the relationship between Australians and Americans during the First World War. Following on from this she was a speaker at the 2008 International Conference on 1918 at the Australian Memorial. She has published a chapter on Americans in the First World War in its proceedings, 1918: Year of Victory (2010: Ashley Ekins, ed.) Meleah Hampton is a member of the editorial staff of the Australian War Memorial's magazine, Wartime, and continues to research and write biographies for the Last Post Ceremony project. She is a keen `battlefield sniffer', having visited the Western Front many times. She currently lives in Canberra with her husband and son.