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The Coo-ee March. Softcover, ISBN 9780864170729
Publisher: Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1986
Used. Paperback quarto, very good condition, frontispiece map, music scores at rear, black & white text-photos, top edge faintly foxed, minor edgewear. 96 pp. After the disasters of Gallipoli and France, enlistments dwindled. This is the story of the pioneering great recruiting march from Gilgandra to Sydney in the latter half of 1915. Twenty-six men left the little Western town on the Castlereagh River and the number reached 263 by the time they reached Sydney. They were feted at each town…