Walcha history: Bush battalion prepares for war

By Bob Walsh
Updated November 1 2017 - 1:57pm, first published October 31 2017 - 12:39pm
Military scene: 33rd Battalion marching through Armidale in 1916. The camp was set up at the showground.
Military scene: 33rd Battalion marching through Armidale in 1916. The camp was set up at the showground.

Lieut. Richard Henry Blomfield, M.C., who had a grazing property at Walcha, wrote a history of the 33rd Battalion that was published in the Northern Daily Leader during April, May and June 1939. Much of what follows has been taken from his writings.

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