POETRY of WORLD WAR 1.: Library Resources

Eric Bogle's famous and familiar Australian song about the Battle of Gallipoli explores the futility of war with haunting power.

'Theres a track winding back, to an old-fashioned shack, Along the road to Gundagai.' The words are familiar, but the story they tell may not be. Andrew McLeans illustrations bring to life the story of the men who went to the Great War, many of them never to return home.

In 1915 Banjo Paterson wrote as an open letter to the troops a poem he titled We're All Australians Now': 'Australia takes her pen in hand, to write a line to you, to let you fellows understand, How proud we are of you.'