Kind of Victory, A : Captain Charles Cox and his Australian Cavalrymen

Craig Wilcox
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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

Additional Information

AuthorCraig Wilcox
Number of pages217
PublisherNational Library of Australia, Canberra
Year Published2014
Binding Type

French flaps, Softcover

Book Condition

New

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