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The Broken Soldier single work   poetry   "There's a ship at the Heads, a snow white ship"
Issue Details: First known date: 1916... 1916 The Broken Soldier
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A poem about a Red Cross ship returning to Melbourne with the 'spoils of war', that is, maimed soldiers.

Notes

  • Previously published in the Melbourne Herald of 5th May [1916]. (Note after extract in School Paper)

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First known date: 1916
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The Broken Soldier i "There's a ship at the heads, a snow-white ship", Joice M. Nankivell , 1916 extract poetry (The Broken Soldier)
— Appears in: The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII , June no. 200 1916; (p. 79-80)
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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