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1.The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1914
2. Nash, George, ‘O'feet - For which I knit these socks”,
Stewart ,David and Fitzgerald, James,
The great war using evidence, Nelson 1987 page 138
3. ibid, page 98, a famous quotation of soon to be Prime Minister Andrew
Fisher
4. Yass Courier, 16\8\1914.
5. Bayley W.A.,Yass Municipal Centenary History, Yass Municipal Council,
1973, p 85
6. Yass Courier,17\8\1914 and 20\8\1914
7. Yass Courier, 17\8\1914
8. Yass Courier, 28\8\1914
9. Yass Courier, 18\8\1914.
10. Yass Courier ,23\11\1914.
11. Yass Courier, 28\1\1915
12. Denning Roy, A letter from Malta, 23\7\1915
Roy Denning was in the first ATC Engineers and embarked
on 7 September 1914 for service overseas. He returned to Australia on 8
October 1918 having seen service in Gallipoli and the Western Front.
This very descriptive letter describing the Gallipoli
landing and subsequent fighting was written by Roy Denning in Malta in
1916 to his mother in Yass. Eventually it came into the possession of the
Shaw family of Yass. Roy was the brother of Alice Mary Shaw, the
Lady Mayoress of 1918.
The letter was given to the Yass and District Historical
Society by Sister Rae Burgess whose mother was a Shaw. this information
is courtesy of the Yass and District Historical Society. The letter has
subsequently been editted by Jane Nauta and published by the Yass
& District Historical Society and is available for purchase.
13. The War Illustrated; a pictorial record of the conflict of the
nations, Vol 3, 21 August 1915 -12 February 1916, Amalgamated Press, London.
14.Trudgeon, E.M., and Johnston, G. A., For King and Country 1914-1918:
New Ways in History, Longman Cheshire, 1980, page 54
15. ibid page 57
16. Bailey, op. cit., page 85
17. Shannon, Leslie Gordon, Letter from Pozieres July 1916, to
his family at Kapunda South Australia on the eve of the famous battle atwhich
he was wounded and had to be sent to England to convalesce.
18. Yass Courier, 4\1\1916.
19. Carlos, Gloria, Eighty Years of Service: a History of the Red Cross,
unpublished manuscript,1994.
20. from the newspaper cutting collection of Miss Mary Yeo held in
the Yass Archives.
21. ibid
22. Yass Courier 1914, from the Yeo collection.
23. Yass Courier, 20\12\1915
24. Trudgeon, E.M., and Johnston, G.A., For King and Country 1914-1918,
New Ways In History, Longman Chesire, 1980, page 72.
25. Bayley, ibid, page 85.
26. Yass Courier, April 1917.
27. Red Cross, A Brief History of the Yass Branch of the Australian
Red Cross Society - NSW Division, unpublished manuscript held at Yass Archives.
28. Yass Courier, 14 November 1918.
29. Red Cross, ibid
30. Yass Courier, 14 November 1918.
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