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The Boer War established a template for the region’s response to any future imperial wars. The young, single men would volunteer. Speeches given at farewells and welcome home socials would combine imperial loyalty with a strong nativist theme that championed the Australian volunteer. Committees would raise money for patriotic funds. The women would meet, sew, knit and send comforts to the “boys”. The dead would be honoured with the building of local monuments. It is uncanny to see how closely the first sixteen months of the Great War paralleled the Boer War. Yet, this new war held far darker seeds and shattered the comfortable assumptions based on experience gained during the Boer War.
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McQuilton, J. (2016). Conclusion. In: Australia's Communities and the Boer War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30825-8_10
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