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In October 1901 in the village of Cudgewa, Rev. Campbell Lahore conducted an in memoriam service for Walter Briggs who was killed in the Boer War. Lahore praised Briggs for his sacrifice for empire, and he savaged the men in the Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles (VMR) for their apparent cowardice at Wilmansrust. This was of some interest to those attending the service because the Fifth VMR had accounted for the largest intake of regional volunteers for the war.
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McQuilton, J. (2016). Introduction: “Dot” Briggs. In: Australia's Communities and the Boer War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30825-8_1
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