Titlebook: Australia‘s Communities and the Boer War; John McQuilton Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Military history.F

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Exploring Disloyalty,ast. Suspicions about the loyalty of the region’s Irish Catholic population were ridiculed by local editors and were allayed when a local priest wrote a passionate defence of Britain’s actions in South Africa. Yet, jingoism, sectarianism and allegations of disloyalty did come together in the distric

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Our Boys,ld colonial volunteers be a match for the Boer and a worthy peer of the Tommy in defence of empire? Few men were not officially welcomed home. These men had dispelled any doubts about Australians fighting in a war for empire. The welcome home socials began as all-male affairs but quickly became comm

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Obligations, Monuments and Moving On,munities made plans to commemorate the men killed during the war by erecting monuments to honour the dead. It was hoped that these would act as points of commemoration and remembrance for coming generations. They failed to do so. The first anniversary of peace came and went unnoticed: There were no

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Book 2016ecame an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first exploration of the place of the Boer War in Australian history at the community level. Indeed, even at the nation

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International Year of Planet Earths the Empire’s Patriotic Fund. Rivalry developed between local towns in their displays of patriotic loyalty. The region’s women used their domestic skills for the war effort producing comforts for the men serving in South Africa. The months following Black Week also saw a demand for the establishment of VMR units to replace the rifle clubs.