Description
Title: Macleay Valley Volunteers – Macleay Chronicle newspaper extracts – volunteers and letters from the past
Editors: Gow, Rod and Gow, Wendy
Condition: Near Mint +
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN: 0958099774
Publication Date: 2005
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 479 pages
Comments: This book highlights the enlistment, rejections, send-offs, welcome home functions, and the community support given to the servicemen and women of the Macleay River (Kempsey) and surrounding districts (Nambucca etc.).
Featuring letters from the front written to family and friends at home which describes the war through their eyes, and the celebrations of the Armistice in the various villages of the Macleay district published in the Macleay Chronicle newspaper between 1914 and 1925. This newspaper’s circulation area covered from the Manning Valley (Taree) to the Tweed River and out to the New England (Armidale etc.) district, and features many references to servicemen from those areas.
