"...Only the brave deserve the fair": postcard |
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Title : | "...Only the brave deserve the fair": postcard |
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Creator : | Australia. State Recruiting Committee of South Australia | ||
Place Of Creation : | Australia | ||
Date of creation : | [1917?] | ||
Format : | Pamphlet | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
Postcard, with caption, issued by the State Recruiting Committee of South Australia. It shows a photograph of a soldier walking towards a large church with his 'sweetheart'. Another man looks on whilst the Recruiting Officer takes him by the shoulder,presumably to persuade him to enlist. The church pictured is St. Peters Cathedral in Adelaide. |
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Coverage year : | 1917 |
Period : | 1914-1918 |
Place : | South Australia |
Further reading : | Carlyon, Les. The great war, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006 Darracott, Joseph and Belinda Loftus. First World War posters, [London]: Imperial War Museum [1972] Gammage, Bill. The broken years : Australian soldiers in the Great War, Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin Books, 1990 Kent, David. From trench and troopship : the experience of the Australian Imperial Force, 1914-1919, Alexandria, N.S.W. : Hale & Iremonger , 1999 Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war: a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press, 2002 State Library of South Australia. Conscription and enlistment, [Adelaide]: State Library of South Australia, 1997 |
Internet links : | Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: information about conscription in both World War 1 and World War 2 sections Australian War Memorial See: Research and Family History: Encyclopedia: Conscription State Library of New South Wales: World War I and Australia Reseach Guide: Recruitment and conscription State Library of Victoria: Ergo See: Explore history: Australia & WWI: Home WWI: Arguments over conscription |