Book keeps war's home fires burning

Updated April 21 2015 - 9:30am, first published April 20 2015 - 4:53pm
The banner was made by the Nowra Branch of the Red Cross Society for the South Coast Waratahs Recruiting March. Australian War Memorialsouth-coast-waratahs-flag1.JPG
The banner was made by the Nowra Branch of the Red Cross Society for the South Coast Waratahs Recruiting March. Australian War Memorialsouth-coast-waratahs-flag1.JPG
MERCURY :  weekender  Nowra Showground gates. 100th anniversary of the Waratah March this year. Historian Alan Clark wrote a book about it 20 years ago and is looking to update it. The recruitment march collected soldiers starting at Nowra and marching through the Illawarra  Pics taken on Tuesday the 17 th of February 2015 . Picture by GREG TOTMAN/grt Story Alex Arnold 98395
MERCURY : weekender Nowra Showground gates. 100th anniversary of the Waratah March this year. Historian Alan Clark wrote a book about it 20 years ago and is looking to update it. The recruitment march collected soldiers starting at Nowra and marching through the Illawarra Pics taken on Tuesday the 17 th of February 2015 . Picture by GREG TOTMAN/grt Story Alex Arnold 98395
The Waratahs leave Kiama headed for Jamberoo. Picture: AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALwaratah-march-kiama-jamberoo.JPG
The Waratahs leave Kiama headed for Jamberoo. Picture: AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALwaratah-march-kiama-jamberoo.JPG

"MAY the Waratahs grow in strength, flourish while temporarily transplanted in foreign soil, and return to us rich in achievements for King and country no less conspicuous and brilliant than their namesake, the crimson monarch of the Australian bush."

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