Garth Pratten

Dr Garth Pratten is a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He has worked as an historian for both the Australian Army and the Australian War Memorial, and taught history at Deakin University. He has been a member of the Australian Army Reserve for seventeen years. The grandson of a veteran of the siege of Tobruk, Garth's principal historical interest is the Australian experience of the Second World War, with a particular focus on the conduct of military operations. In April 2006 he was awarded the Australian Army's C.E.W. Bean Prize for Military History for his PhD thesis on Australian battalion commanders in the Second World War.