Bill Gammage was born in Orange, New South Wales, went to Wagga Wagga High School and then to ANU.
11 Facts About Bill Gammage
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Bill Gammage was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide.
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Bill Gammage is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and deputy chair of the National Museum of Australia.
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Bill Gammage is best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, which is based on his PhD thesis written while at the Australian National University.
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Bill Gammage corresponded with 272 Great War veterans, and consulted the personal records of another 728, mostly at the Australian War Memorial.
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Bill Gammage co-edited the Australians 1938 volume of the Bicentennial History of Australia.
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In 1998, Bill Gammage joined the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU as a senior research fellow for the Australian Research Council, working on the history of Aboriginal land management.
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Bill Gammage's scope was cross-disciplinary, working "across fields as disparate as history, anthropology and botany".
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Bill Gammage produced a historical study of the Shire of Narrandera.
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Bill Gammage was made a freeman of Narrandera Shire Council in 1987.
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Bill Gammage was part of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Adelaide ANZAC Day Commemorative March commentary team until 2015.