Flanders in Australia : a personal history of wool and war / Jacqueline Dwyer.

Collection type	Library
Author	Dwyer, Jacqueline, author.;
Call Number	636.3145 D993f 2017
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. 017.
Pagination	xiv, 347 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, genealogical table ;
Publisher	Australian Scholarly Publishing,
Note	The first edition of this book was published by Kangaroo Press in 1998. Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-339) and index. From the late 19th century to the 1950s, many wool buyers from the Flanders region of France & Belgium emigrated to Australia with their families to establish careers as buyers for the woollen mills of Europe. Although originally they had no intention ofremaining here permanently, many stayed, establishing a prosperous and vibrant French community. A peaceful period of business building ended suddenly in 1914 when the Flanders men of Australia returned to the defence of their homeland. Their villages, to wns and field became the site of some of the worst killing of World War One. They fought and died in battles all along the Western Front.
Place made	North Melbourne, Vic :

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