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Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 The Third Brigade
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A poem which implores men to volunteer for military service and follow in the footsteps of the Third Brigade AIF.

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'We take off our hats to the Third Brigade' - Soldier's letter

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail 28 July 1915 Z1878604 1915 newspaper issue 1915 pg. 30
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Songs of the Last Crusade Ella McFadyen , North Sydney : Winn , 1917 Z165949 1917 selected work poetry war literature North Sydney : Winn , 1917 pg. 15-16
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald no. 28490 27 April 1929 Z1791510 1929 newspaper issue 1929 pg. 13
    Note: This poem was published with the following epigraph: "These verses were found in the diary of Captain R. W. L. Chambers, written at the landing on April 25 at Gallipoli." Ella McFadyen informed the SMH of her authorship of the verses in a letter to the editor in the 29 April 1929 issue, p6

Works about this Work

Captain Chambers' Diary Ella McFadyen , 1929 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 April no. 28491 1929; (p. 6)
Captain Chambers' Diary Ella McFadyen , 1929 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 April no. 28491 1929; (p. 6)
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