Letters relating to volunteering for active duty in the Australian armed services |
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| Title : | Letters relating to volunteering for active duty in the Australian armed services |
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| Creator : | Australia. Department of Defence, issuing body. | ||
| Date of creation : | 1918 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Orchard, R. M. | ||
| Format : | Ephemera | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Three letters written by RM Orchard, the Minister in Charge of Recruiting, Australian Department of Defence, outlining the case for volunteering for active service in the armed services through the 'Voluntary Recruiting Ballot' and presumed sent to the South Australian State Recruiting Committee. Letters printed on sheet designed to be folded and sealed using flap at head of sheet. One penny postage stamp printed in red on verso. All letters refer to pamphlets posted separately to arrive at the same time as the letters. First letter dated September 1918, second letter dated September 1918 and third letter dated October 1918. |
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| Coverage year : | 1918 |
| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Further reading : | Beaumont, Joan. Broken nation : Australians in the Great War, Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2013 Carlyon, Les. The great war, Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006 Cochrane, Peter. Australians at war, Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001 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 Luckins, Tanja. The gates of memory : Australian people's experiences and memories of loss in the Great War, Fremantle, W.A. : Curtin University Books, 2004 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 : | 1918 Australians in France [previous exhibition from Australian War Memorial] 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 in focus [several sections about World War One] Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 [Australian War Memorial] Victorians at War - Oral History project [Department of Veterans' Affairs and State Library of Victoria] World War I and Australia Research Guide: Recruitment and conscription [State Library of New South Wales] World War I and its Aftermath 1914 - 1921 [New South Wales High School Certificate (HSC) online] |
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