The cry for recruits |
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| Title : | The cry for recruits |
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| Creator : | Soldier's sweetheart (Poet), author. | ||
| Place Of Creation : | [Adelaide] | ||
| Date of creation : | [1916?] | ||
| Additional Creator : | Gleeson, E. W, | ||
| Format : | Pamphlet | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Poem attributed to E.W. Gleeson decrying the lack of Australian recruits for the war effort in Europe. The writer advocates conscription as a way to remedy the situation. |
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| Coverage year : | 1915 |
| 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 What did you do in the war, Daddy?: a visual history of propaganda posters / a selection from the Australian War Memorial; introduction by Peter Stanley, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983 |
| Internet links : | AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy] Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 1 Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs] Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: First World War 1914-1918 Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index [several sections about World War One] First World War.com See: Propaganda posters Posters, images and cartoons in War [Trinity College, Western Australia : PL Duffy Resource Centre] |
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