@article{796536,
      recid = {796536},
      author = {McQuilton, John.},
      title = {Empires patriotic fund : public benevolence and the Boer  War in an Australian colony /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {This book examines the Empire's Patriotic Fund,  established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the  dependants of the men serving war in the Boer War and the  men invalided home because of wounds or illness. Acting as  an autonomous body and drawing on funds raised through a  public appeal, its work marked one of the first attempts in  Australia to deal with the consequences of Australian  participation in a sustained war. This is the first full  study of an Australian fund established to support those  affected by a sustained war being fought for Empire by  Australians. Rather than casting those affected by war as  victims, John McQuilton examines how a body of middle class  men attempted to come to grips with an experience that lay  outside prevailing notions of social welfare. Based on  applications submitted to the Empire's Patriotic Fund where  both class and gender played their roles, this book opens  up further study of such funds and the question of  antecedents in the history of repatriation in Australia in  the early twentieth century.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/796536},
}