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As Charles Smith would discover, the Empire’s Patriotic Fund’s provision of short term support for men disabled by the war was short indeed. Local communities made plans to commemorate the men killed during the war by erecting monuments to honour the dead. It was hoped that these would act as points of commemoration and remembrance for coming generations. They failed to do so. The first anniversary of peace came and went unnoticed: There were no civic celebrations to mark the day and no commemorative services were held at the local monuments erected for the fallen. The Boer War was well on the way to becoming Australia’s “forgotten war”.
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McQuilton, J. (2016). Obligations, Monuments and Moving On. In: Australia's Communities and the Boer War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30825-8_9
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