The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Group portrait of the 'Men from Snowy River' route march for recruitment outside the public luncheon rooms, Goulburn NSW. The march started on 6 January 1916 at Delegate, NSW, and took a route through Craigie, Mila, Bombala, Bibbenluke, Holt’s Flat, Nimitybelle (Nimmitabel), Summer Hill, Rock’s Flat, Cooma, Bunyan, Umeralla, Billylingera, Bredbo, Colinton, Michelago, Williamsdale, Queanbeyan, Bungendore, Deep Creek, Tarago, Inveralochy, and Tiranna, finishing up at Goulburn on 28 January 1916. The recruiting march (actually mostly by car and truck) was repeated early in the Second World War. There were reenactments of the original march in 1988 and 2006.
'Men from Snowy River' recruiting banner. The banner is made from a large British red ensign hanging from a horizontal hoist, with a smaller Australian red ensign sewn next to the union jack in the up
'Men from Snowy River' recruiting banner. The banner is made from a large British red ensign hanging from a horizontal hoist, with a smaller Australian red ensign sewn next to the union jack in the up
Group portrait of members of the 55th Battalion who enlisted in 'The Men from Snowy River' recruitment march in the Monaro region of NSW in January 1916. Back row, from left to right: 2139 Private (Pt
Standard pattern military side drum with unpainted brass body, original hoops and skin heads, and fitted with a pair of wooden counterhoops, painted in red with a black band featuring a white stripe i
'The Snowy River Marchers, their war effort and afterwards' by W C Stegemann. An account of the Snowy River Recruiting March from Delegate to Goulburn January 1916. Provides context (losses on Gallip