Alex Halden (Joe) Miller papers mainly relating to the Gilgandra Coo-ee Recruitment March, New South Wales, 1912-1921, 1939

fonds

1912-1921, 1939

Textual Records, Clippings

896840

0.36 metres of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, printed

In 1915, local residents of Gilandra, NSW, William Hitchen, Captain of the Rifle Association, Joe Miller, a well known businessman and John Robert Lee a Lay preacher and share farmer organised a recruiting march from Gilandra to Sydney. The plan was to march to the next town or settlement during the day and to hold recruiting meetings in the evening when able bodied men would be encouraged to join up. They were known as the 'Gilgandra Coo-ees'.

SERIES 01
Gilgandra Coo-ee Recruitment March correspondence and papers, 1915-1939

SERIES 02
Gilgandra Coo-ee Recruitment March scrapbooks, 1915-1921

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Microfilm copy available at CY 4149 (MLMSS 5081/Box 1/Items 1-4); CY 4150 (MLMSS 5081/Box 1/Items 5-11); CY 4086 (MLMSS 5081/Box 2)

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