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Victoria at war : 1914-1918

Author: Michael McKernan
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2014.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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During the First World War, in Melbourne and communities throughout Victoria, schoolchildren knitted socks for the troops serving in Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front. Their families set up Red Cross branches to support the 91,000 Victorian servicemen and women overseas. Victoria at War records the achievements of the state's soldiers, nurses and their families - including the Whitelaws from  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
History
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
McKernan, Michael.
Victoria at war 1914-1918.
Sydney, Australia : New South, ©2014
x, 230 pages
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Michael McKernan
ISBN: 9781742247045 1742247040 9781742233802 1742233805
OCLC Number: 880672701
Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
Description: 1 online resource
Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents: Maps; Foreword; Prologue; Chapter 1: War comes to Melbourne; Chapter 2: War comes to Victoria; Chapter 3: Victorians go to war; Chapter 4: War in the Schools; Chapter 5: Counting the Cost; Chapter 6: On the Western Front; Chapter 7: Conscription; Chapter 8: Holding On; Chapter 9: Victory; Epilogue; A note on sources; Acknowledgements; Index.
Responsibility: Michael McKernan.

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Commemorates Victoria's World War I soldiers, nurses and their families in stories from the home front and battlefront. Bestselling historian Michael McKernan tells the stories that highlight the  Read more...

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