Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
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Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331466706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Excerpt from Australia at the Front: A Colonial View of the Boer War AS to the pages which follow, I do not propose to make any lengthy apology. They are a record in brief of personal impressions and experiences during ten months' association with Australian troops in South Africa. So far as I have been able to judge, during the few weeks spent in England while preparing this volume for the press, the general public not only wants to know what Australia has done for the Empire in this crisis, but is anxious to give her a full measure of credit for it. Through force of circumstances our troops even those hailing from the same colony - were split up into more or less minute fragments, and operated, during the major portion of the campaign, with columns hundreds of miles apart, making it quite impossible for any one man to keep in touch with more than one section at a time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Australia at the Front: A Colonial View of the Boer War

Australia at the Front: A Colonial View of the Boer War PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018083896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Australia at the Front; a Colonial View of the Boer War

Australia at the Front; a Colonial View of the Boer War PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230455303
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Languages : en
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxvi the "bushies" I Have known the Australian Bushman for years--as he exists on his native heath. He is not a "Bushranger" in our sense of the word; neither is he an aboriginal, as some people seem to imagine. The Sydney Daily Telegraph correspondent, who accompanied the first lot round by way of Beira, records his impression of them. He says: --"As an Englishman I have derived much pleasure from the study of the Bushman, and after two months' intercourse I have come to the conclusion that he is one of the best fellows in the world--and this after he had laughed me to scorn for drinking tea with milk, and had been unsympathetically mirthful over my ineffectual effort to make "damper," or the tasty "devils in the coals." He is a tall, raw-boned, good-natured beggar; he can make tea in a period an ordinary man would be striking a match; he can ride horses that tie themselves up into knots and buck with greatk suddenness and power; he can swear so that I have seen regular Tommies stand agape in awesome admiration. With a sick comrade he is tender as a child; he is the sort of stuff that heroes are cut from, and when a buck crosses his path within eyeshot he fears not God or the game laws." Unfortunately, there would appear to have been some difficulty with his officers, several of whom, in Rhodesia, were chosen by a committee. Colonel Carew, their Brigadier, in an interview on the subject, is thus represented: --"What do I think of the Bushmen?" he said, sweeping a pile of returns off a chair and motioning me to a seat. "They are great, aud I am just as proud of my command as I can possibly be. They want a little training, but they are wonderfully adaptable, and they can ride. Look at that fellow "--a mounted man of the Victorians...

Australia at the Front; a Colonial View of the Boer War. Illustrated by Norman H. Hardy

Australia at the Front; a Colonial View of the Boer War. Illustrated by Norman H. Hardy PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
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Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson (Journalist.)
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Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Senior Research Officer Department of Applied Economics Cambridge and Fellow of Frank Wilkinson
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294444275
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Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Australia at the Front

Australia at the Front PDF Author: Frank Wilkinson
Publisher: War College Series
ISBN: 9781298481863
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Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Australia at the Front. A Colonial View of the Boer War ... Illustrated ... from Sketches and Photographs by the Author. [With a Map.].

Australia at the Front. A Colonial View of the Boer War ... Illustrated ... from Sketches and Photographs by the Author. [With a Map.]. PDF Author: Frank WILKINSON (Journalist.)
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Australia's Communities and the Boer War

Australia's Communities and the Boer War PDF Author: John McQuilton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319308254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This book explores an Australian regional community’s reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first exploration of the place of the Boer War in Australian history at the community level. Indeed, even at the national level the literature is limited. It is often forgotten that, despite the claims that Australia became a federation via peaceful means, the colonies and the new nation were, in fact, at war. This study aims to bring back into focus a forgotten part of Australian and imperial history, and argues that the Australian experience of the Boer War was more than the execution of Morant and Hancock.