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Article: 'The Sacking of Albany'--the image of the Boer War veteran in Australia.
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- June 1, 2004
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On Saturday morning, 31 May 1902, Australia's acting Minister for Defence, former New South Wales Premier Sir William Lyne, boarded the troopship Aurania in Port Phillip Bay. The Aurania was bringing home the largest contingent of Australian soldiers to return from the war in South Africa--1500 men from New South Wales, Victorian, Queensland and New Zealand contingents, together with demobilised Australian volunteers who had served in South African units. The acting minister was not there to provide a warm welcome to the men, and he was greeted by surly troops--'an air of depression seemed to hang over everyone' reported a journalist from The Age newspaper also on board. ...
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