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Camden’S Salvage Campaign, 1939-45, Ian Willis
Camden’S Salvage Campaign, 1939-45, Ian Willis
Ian Willis
Journal of the Australian War Memorial Camden’s salvage campaign, 1939-45 Ian Willis {1} Salvage collection, now called recycling, was one of the many home front activities that was carried on during the Second World War in Australia and elsewhere. The aim of these collections was to gather up waste material from various sources for reuse towards the war effort. It was broken up into two categories, military and civilian. This article will confine itself to the civilian salvage collection in the rural community of Camden, New South Wales. {2} The Camden salvage effort was only one of the many voluntary …