Join "Car's" thousand

Australian First World War recruitment poster featuring a central three quarter length portrait of Captain A.C Carmichael in uniform. The title text is positioned above and beneath the image printed in white outlined with black ink. Both the image and text are set against a red background and framed within a blue border. The 36th Battalion was raised at Broadmeadow Camp, in Newcastle, New South Wales in February 1916. The bulk of the battalion's recruits had been enlisted as a result of a recruiting drive conducted amongst the rifle clubs of New South Wales by the Minister for Public Information in the New South Wales government, Ambrose Carmichael. Thus, the battalion became known as "Carmichael's Thousand" or "Car's Thousand". Carmichael led by example and enlisted as well, serving in the battalion as a captain. The 36th Battalion became part of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Australian Division seeing action on the Western Front from late 1916 until it was disbanded in April 1918.