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The real issue [conscription], 18 December 1917

By
Hal Eyre
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a6961066 / PXD 518, vol 50, 196]
(The Daily Telegraph war cartoons, 1917, original drawings by Hal Eyre)

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Eyre, Hal

State Library of New South Wales

Recruiting for World War I

As the embarkation point for many World War I soldiers, Sydney was a centre for recruiting volunteers from all over New South Wales, and also strongly affected by the bitter conscription referenda campaigns of 1916 and 1917, and the subsequent political fallout.

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Voting and Elections

World War I

Armed forces

Conscription referendum 1917

British pressure to supply a sixth division of 7000 men per month led to the second referendum that would have seen compulsory reinforcements augment dwindling volunteer recruitment. Whilst it was defeated it remained highly divisive politically, socially and within religious circles.

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