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AUSTRALIAN MILITARY
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became British soldiers as well as Australian ones. But everything went wrong. Publicity got in the way of cavalry drill which, in any case, the Australians were allowed to shirk.
The debacle ended with Cox volunteering his little command for the Boer War, with the British making him get the consent of his government and his men, and finally with a murder on a lonely farm in South Africa. There was no more talk of Australian fighting men morphing into colonial members of the British army.
Still, the newspapers said the venture was a brilliant success, that Australians had proved themselves natural warriors, that the British Empire was stronger for what happened, all of which Australians rejoiced to hear. It was, in the end, a kind of victory. 217 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm #061222 Cox, Charles Frederick, 1863-1944. | Australia. Army. Royal New South Wales Lancers, 1st/15th — History. | Australia. Army — Biography. | Military training camps — England — Aldershot. | Military service, Voluntary — New South Wales — History. | South African War, 1899-1902 — Regimental histories — Australia. | South African War, 1899-1902 — Participation, Australian. | New South Wales — History, Military. | Australian
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