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Article: Adventurous roving natures Northern Territory volunteers of 1914.
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- Sabretache
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- June 1, 2006
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Ninety years have passed since an immense wave of patriotic fervour was aroused throughout Australia upon the outbreak of World War 1. Young men from even the most remote and isolated outback settlements made their way into towns by whatever means they could muster to enlist for what they saw either as a great adventure or duty to the Commonwealth or Empire--they were the men described by the official historian C E W Bean as, "the adventurous roving natures that could not stay away, whatever their duties and their ties".
The Northern Territory community at that time was small and highly transient, so no single Northern Territory battalion was raised as was the ...