A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 91
... School , heard some good news : Melbourne Grammar had won the boat race . 27 In the school chapels the boys were exhorted in hushed voices to revere the honoured dead . At Melbourne Grammar School there was Ronald Guy Larking , killed ...
... School , heard some good news : Melbourne Grammar had won the boat race . 27 In the school chapels the boys were exhorted in hushed voices to revere the honoured dead . At Melbourne Grammar School there was Ronald Guy Larking , killed ...
Page 117
... School who had won his school colours in the Rugby XV in 1917. They put ques- tions to the returned soldier . To Kirby's surprise the soldier replied in incoherent whispers . He had been gassed . All over the country young boys and ...
... School who had won his school colours in the Rugby XV in 1917. They put ques- tions to the returned soldier . To Kirby's surprise the soldier replied in incoherent whispers . He had been gassed . All over the country young boys and ...
Page 205
... Schools , the School Papers and the teachers introduced the children to English heroes such as Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington , and to their good fortune in belonging to an Empire on which the sun never set . Each Monday morning ...
... Schools , the School Papers and the teachers introduced the children to English heroes such as Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington , and to their good fortune in belonging to an Empire on which the sun never set . Each Monday morning ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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