Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in History
When War Came To Fremantle, 1899 To 1945, Deborah Gare, Madison Lloyd-Jones
When War Came To Fremantle, 1899 To 1945, Deborah Gare, Madison Lloyd-Jones
Deborah Gare
In 1911 the journalist and historian Ernest Scott advised readers of the
Round Table that ‘England’s quarrels, England’s interests, are ours also,’
and that Australia ‘will be available for the defence of the Empire as a
whole, wherever their services may be required.’1 The nation had, by this
time, been a Commonwealth for just a decade.
When war broke out in 1914, Australians enthusiastically supported
Britain and its Empire. Australia then had a population of less than five
million people (not including Aborigines, who at that time were not yet
counted in the nation’s Census) and yet sent more than …