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War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: There was a feeling of what shall I say, very negative feeling about conscription. We didn’t want the type of fellow amongst us who had to be forced to fight for his country. We didn’t want that type at…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: It wasn’t long before the campaign itself weeded out those that weren’t suitable, and that was a very very small percentage, very very small. Turnbull: How did it weed them out? Just unsuitability. I can remember we had an…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: The regiment was a good regiment because it had good men and that crosses my line of philosophy about anything being only as good as its head cause after all’s said and done we were a good show, I…

Notes to Cameron, Ruralist Ideology in Queensland

Notes (1) Mann, Queensland Parliamentary Debates [QPD], 98 (1906), p.1344. (2) C.A. Bernays, Queensland Politics During Sixty (1859-1919) Years (Brisbane: Queensland Government Printer, 1919), p. 383. (3) Margaret Stubbs-Brown, The Secondary Industries of Queensland: 1875-1900, B.A. Hons, University of Queensland.,…

War Memoir of Robert Ellwood

Ellwood: Magdhaba was a very interesting experience for me. We conditioned our horses – it was a long trek – we conditioned our horses to only have one drink a day and extended that up to 16 or 12-14 hours…