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1919 – ANZAC Sermon – To Right the Wrongs

‘The Anzac sermon was preached by an army chaplain;

it was a glorification of the Australians, with some humorous sidelights.

It had none of the dignity and impressiveness that one would have thought the occasion demanded,

and offered no comfort to those present who had lost relatives at Gallipoli and on other battlefields.

He denied absolutely the oft-repeated statement that the Australian soldiers were undisciplined.

They were splendidly disciplined, he said, but their disciplined conduct had no trace of servility.

He spoke feelingly of the social conditions that had killed soldiers before they entered the trenches.

The evidence in the trenches of the terrible results of those social conditions

had roused many men to the sense of their duty to their fellows,

and made them resolve that when they returned to civil life they would

do all in their power to right the wrongs under which their comrades had lived.’

Woman Voter 7 August 1919 State Library of Victoria

First World War Women working for peace 1914-1919
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April 24, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, history