He belonged to Wagga : The Great War, the AIF and returned soldiers in an Australian country town / Ian Hodges
- Bib ID:
- 8684141
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hodges, Ian Leslie, author
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022
- ©2022
- x, 310 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922669636
- Summary:
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Wagga's volunteers who served in the First World War were the country men of AIF lore. Some who laboured on farms might have been the bushmen of legend; a significant proportion earned their living in the same professions and occupations as city dwellers. Many of the local men who survived were profoundly affected by it. Some never recovered, but as well as the unemployed, the destitute and those who needed constant care were veterans who had families and managed to live normal lives. This book follows the First World War generation from the Wagga Wagga district in southern New South Wales through the late nineteenth century to the mid 1930s. The environment in which Wagga's soldiers grew up, their years in the army and their lives as returned men touch on the war's most enduring themes.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index.
- General.
- Subject:
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- Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921) -- History
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- New South Wales -- Wagga Wagga
- World War, 1914-1918 -- New South Wales -- Wagga Wagga
- Veterans -- New South Wales -- Wagga Wagga
- Soldiers -- New South Wales -- Wagga Wagga
- Wagga Wagga (N.S.W.) -- History
- Australian
- Copyright:
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