The Sweetland Project : remembering Gallipoli in the Shire of Nunawading / Steven Cooke.

Collection type Library
Author Cooke, Steven, author.;
Call Number 940.4099451 C773s
Document type Monograph
Year 2015.
Pagination xxvi, 211 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Publisher Australian Scholarly Publishing,
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-203) and index. (3z(BA chance discovery made on a tour of Anzac Cove provided an immediate link between Gallipoli and Melbourne?s Eastern Suburbs. In the lead up to the Centenary of Anzac, ?The Sweetland Project? (named after a Box Hill man, Stephen Sweetland) became a broader search for the connections between Gallipoli and the former Shire of Nunawading, revealing 27 men from the former shire who died during the Gallipoli campaign. This book traces their stories and the reaction to the Great War of the local communit y, and shows how personal and collective memories of their experiences still resonate today.(S3(B -- Back cover.
Place made North Melbourne, Vic. :
Abstract

The Shire in the lead up to the First World War -- The journey to Gallipoli -- Gallipoli stories -- The impact of the war on the Shire -- The memorial landscapes of Anzac -- Epilogue: family memories.

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