The Dungarees – An Account of the Recruitment March from Warwick to Brisbane (1st Edition)

Description

Title: The Dungarees – An Account of the Recruitment March from Warwick to Brisbane by Volunteers for the First World War and the Re-Enactment 1998.

Author: McCaughey, Nat

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2000

ISBN: 0646407619

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 96 pages

Comments: Dungarees recruiting march was one of the recruiting marches organised in New South Wales and Queensland during 1915 and 1916.

Route: Warwick, Queensland – Brisbane (via Toowoomba, Laidley and Ipswich).

The only one of these marches in a state other than New South Wales.

Names of marchers were reported in the local newspapers as they joined the march.

A commemorative re-enactment march took place in 1998 with 28 volunteers leaving Warwick on 13 April and arriving in Brisbane to participate in the ANZAC Day march.