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Advance Australia [poem]
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Creator : Wemyss, Eleanor
Source : Wemyss family, PRG 91/3
Date of creation : 1899
Format : Manuscript
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Poem titled 'Advance Australia' written in 1899 by Eleanor (Ellie) Wemyss on the proposed despatch of the South Australian Contingent to South Africa.


Subjects
Coverage year : 1899
Period : 1884-1913
Further reading :

Austin, Ronald J. The Australian illustrated encyclopedia of the Zulu and Boer wars, McCrae, Vic.: Slouch Hat Publications, c1999

Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial History Conference, (1999: Canberra, A.C.T.). The Boer War : army, nation and empire / the 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference; edited by Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, Canberra: Dept. of Defence, Army History Unit, 2000

Field, L. M. The forgotten war: Australia and the Boer War, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1995

Haydon, AP. 'South Australia's first war', Historical studies, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 11, no. 42 (April 1964), p. 222-233

Wallace, Robert L. The Australians at the Boer War, Canberra: Australian War Memorial [and] Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976

Wilcox, Craig. Australia's Boer War: the war in South Africa, 1899-1902, South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, 2002

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