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Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 The Trooper's Farewell
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  • Printed in Cairo in 1915 as a folding Christmas card. The front of the card was inscribed "Greetings from Egypt".
    (Source: Billy Wye : The Last True Australian Bush Poet p. 35)

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First known date: 1915
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail 29 November 1916 Z1921119 1916 newspaper issue 1916 pg. 23
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Billy Wye : The Last True Australian Bush Poet William James Wye , Dianne Carroll , Omeo : Carroll Publishing , 1997 Z223224 1997 selected work poetry biography

    Carroll's substantial introduction, titled The True Story of William James Wye Bushman, Poet & Balladist, Including His Recordings of Australia's History through Verse (pp. 9-141), traces the life, family and writing career of William James Wye. Included in this section are, Souvenirs of the Sunny South: Being a Collection of Australian Horse Verse, Bush Minstrelsy, and other poetry by William James Wye.

    The second half of this volume comprises Wye's poetry under the headings; Legends, Places, Humour, Nation and Nature, Family and Friends, Troopers, Horses and Other.

         Omeo : Carroll Publishing , 1997     pg. 36-38
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