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Source: The Mirror of Australia, 23 December, 1916, p. 12
The Real Anzacs single work   poetry   "There are plenty of slouch-hatted soldiers in town,"
Alternative title: The Real Anzac
Issue Details: First known date: 1916... 1916 The Real Anzacs
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Notes

  • A poem which maintains that the Anzacs who fought at Gallipoli were a hallowed group, that they were the 'real Anzacs', and that other Australian and New Zealand troops, then in England, were not their equal.

  • This work was published widely in the Australian newspapers during World War I.

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