War cry: a town's pressure to enlist and the horrible cost for Orange's families

By Janice Harris
Updated August 5 2014 - 6:46am, first published 4:00am
TERRIFYING TIME: Swinburne University lecturer Dr Julie Kimber has written a definitive account of life in Orange during the war in her 300-page PhD thesis A Bush Christening - Orange and the Great War.
TERRIFYING TIME: Swinburne University lecturer Dr Julie Kimber has written a definitive account of life in Orange during the war in her 300-page PhD thesis A Bush Christening - Orange and the Great War.

THE pressure to serve for king and country at the outbreak of World War I and in the years of the conflict that followed had a devastating effect on many Orange families who didn’t want their sons and brothers to go to war, according to a Melbourne academic.

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