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Recruiting Marches 1915-1918

Further online resources

R. Hugh Knyvett, “Over there” with the Australians (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,1918): 22-30 [Contemporaneous account of patriotic recruitments and origins of recruiting marches.]

L. L. Robson, The first A.I.F.: a study of its recruitment 1914-1918 (Melbourne, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1970): 46-61 [Summary of ‘snowball’ recruiting drives 1915.]

Ernest Scott, Australia during the war, Official history of Australian in the war of 1914 – 1918, volume 11 (Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1938): 315-19, 460 [Summary of best known recruiting marches, names, dates, starting and terminal points, distance and numbers, and ominous reference of the impending sacrifice.]

Central West Boomerangs

Cheryl Mudford, The Boomerang re-enactment march: celebrating the 83rd anniversary of a recruitment march in Central Western NSW Parkes to Bathurst, 1916-1999 (Dubbo, NSW: Cheryl L. Mudford, 1999). [Parkes to Bathurst; includes nominal roll.]

Coo-ees

John Meredith, The Coo-ee march: Gilgandra – Sydney, 1915 (Dubbo, NSW: Macquarie, 1981). [The first recruitment march; includes photos, map, history and list of Coo-ee songs and poems, itinerary.]

The Kangaroos

Les Hetherington, ‘The Kangaroos march: Wagga Wagga to Sydney, December 1915 - January 1916’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial 26 (April 1995) 19-25. [Route taken, statistical analysis and behaviour of recruits and success of march are examined.]

Cheryl Mongan & Richard Reid, We have not forgotten: Yass & districts war 1914-1918 (Yass, NSW: Milltown Research and Publications, 1996) 20-34. [From Wagga Wagga to Sydney via Yass, December 1915. Recruiting march poster.]

Kookaburras

Roy Cameron, The Kookaburra march through Mendooran & Dunedoo: for the occasion of the Kookaburra March re-enactment to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the original Kookaburra March January – February 1916 (Coolah, NSW: Mendooran and Dundedoo Kookaburra March Re-enactment Committees, 1996). [Contains maps, detailed itinerary, names of recruits from each town; biographical details and alphabetical index of recruits’ names; Tooraweenah, Binnaway Merrygoen, Dunedoo, Mendooran and Tucklan honour rolls.]

Cheryl Mudford & John Mudford, The Kookaburra March re-enactment 13-27th March 1996: commemorating the 80th anniversary of a recruitment march Tooraweenah to Bathurst NSW Australia 1916 (Gilgandra, NSW: Cheryl and John Mudford, c1996).

Men from Snowy River

W. C. Stegemann, A Monaro mosaic: patterns of Monaro life: events and people (Barneyview, Qld: Linbarroo Press, 1985): 45-61 [From Delegate to Goulburn, January 1916; includes numbers recruited, receptions; poetry and songs, criticism.]

Wallabies

David H. Dial, The march of the Wallabies, Walgett – Newcastle, 1st December 1915 – 8th January 1916: the definitive history of the north west route march (Maitland, NSW: R. H. Kerrigan, 1990). [Contains colour recruitment posters, maps, itinerary, photographs. Nominal roll includes enlistment place, honours and deaths.]

Waratahs

Alan Clark, ‘The Waratahs’ South Coast recruiting march, 1915 (Nowra: the author, 1994).
[ Nowra to Sydney; nominal roll; biographical details. http://www.shoal.net.au/~rflorance/page9.html]