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Mutual Friends: Travel and Networks After the First World War

Social and cultural histories of the enduring effects of the First World War have, understandably, focused on trauma, bereavement and disability. Other effects that might arguably be regarded as positive – those that resulted from exposure to a broad range of people in a global and multi-ethnic, multi-religious event – have not only been more difficult to trace, but are possibly less palatable in modern rememberings of war. This article uses two travel diaries by veterans of the New Zealand forces to observe the ways First World War experiences continued to impact their lives in ways that were not traumatic. Rather, for years and decades after the First World War, the experiences of these two travellers were enriched and their horizons expanded by the people met and networks formed in the 1914–18 conflict.