WW1. Nurses Verses, Dinkum Girls & Songs.

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser NSW

30 Nov 1918

A NURSE'S VERSES.

While in South Africa, en route to the front, Pte. A. J. Woods, late of Boomey Road, met a nurse who is beloved by all Australian soldiers who have landed at the port where she resides, owing to her great kindness to them. 

Her name is Miss E. M. Campbell, and she has written a few verses in honor of the Australians. Pte. Woods sent a copy of these verses home, and three of them are appended:

In your ranks are men of Anzac

Who have stoushed the Hun before,

And those now passed the doctor

Who've been turned-down times galore,

What matter if they're fit or not?

They're of the Anzac breed,

Their spirit makes them mighty,

And they're “there" in England's

need ?

They're "there" to take the places

Of the strong men gone before,

They're “there," the boys of seventeen,

Who gave their age as more,

And grey-haired men of fifty

Who put their ages back

For nothing stops an Aussie

When he wants to do his whack.

And if he tells a lie or two

Because he wants to go,

D'you think Saint Peter will go crook

And “count him out," lads

No He'll reckon that square-dinkum lie

Is worth the truth in tons,

For it takes another hero “there"

To back old England's guns.

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The Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia's General Secretary sends us a history of the League, and urges that all returned soldiers should be members of this body, which has a membership of 40,000,and which was formed to conserve the interests of returned soldiers and sailors, on the principle that" Unity is Strength."

SOME OF MOLONG'S PATRIOTIC WORKER'S
Who assisted at the Red Cross Stall on Italy's Day. Left to Right: Mrs. Blackadder, Misses Tot Radnedge, Linda Burgess, Vera Dignam, Florrie Cahill, Emily Wren, Irene Radnedges (Sydney Mail, Block)

Leader Orange, NSW.

1918

THE DINKUM GIRLS

A patriotic band of young Orange ladies, who have styled themselves

'The Dinkum Girls," Is now very busy making arrangements to open the War Chest rooms on Christmas Evening, they will have real square-dinkum home-made lollies for sale orders are now being booked.

WW1 War Letters home: http://leathemhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/ww1-letters-home-molong-express.html