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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 To Australia
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Notes

  • Alternative form of first line: 'Oh Austral Land, my home land far away in the Southern Sea,'

  • It is not entirely clear who wrote this poem. It appears in Harold's Diary, where it is attributed to V.J. Whittington. However the poem also appeared (untitled) in the Sydney Mail in March 1918, accompanying an extract from a letter written by Gunner W. G. Millard. The poem subsequently appeared in the Traralgon Record on 27 June, 1918, where it was attributed to 'Gunner Willard'.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail 22 May 1918 Z1887844 1918 newspaper issue 1918 pg. 33
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Harold's Diary : An Australian Digger's Records from World War I Ian Harold Reece , Harold Reece , Toowong : Ian Harold Reece , 2005 Z1262889 2005 selected work diary biography war literature

    This book presents the complete personal war diary written by Pte. Harold Reece, a young soldier of the Australian Imperial Force, who embarked from Sydney in 1916 to serve in France on the Western Front. The diary itself concludes when Harold was gassed in October 1918. His elder son Ian Reece has added valuable historical information about Australian society and family life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For post-war material, the author has drawn on primary sources collected by his father, especially those dealing with Harold's work for returned servicemen.

    (Back cover.)         Toowong : Ian Harold Reece , 2005     pg. 63
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