{"id":2448,"date":"2018-01-30T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2018-02-07T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T06:11:37","slug":"new-release-valour-violets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-release-valour-violets\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: Valour and Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valour and Violets,\u00a0<\/em>the latest release from Wakefield Press, is\u00a0a meticulously researched catalogue of the stories of hundreds of South Australians who gave their country everything.<\/h5>\n

Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overseas during the Great War. Around 5500 never came back. Countless more returned with physical and psychological injuries that would affect them for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n

Valour and Violets<\/em> brings together for the first time the stories of the campaigns and battles in which South Australians served, set against the backdrop of the South Australian home front. Here are the stories of Frederick Prentice, the first of three Indigenous South Australians to be awarded the Military Medal; Thomas Baker, the gunner who became an ace pilot; and Sister Margaret Graham, awarded the Royal Red Cross for her contribution to army nursing. Here too are lesser known stories, such as that of Alexandrina Seager, who formed the Cheer-Up Society back home and worked every single day during the war, despite losing her youngest son at Gallipoli. Or Clara Weaver of Rosewater, who not only lost five sons to the war but also her husband, George, who died at home before the war ended.<\/p>\n

Drawing on the work of the many who have written on the subject previously,Valour and Violets<\/em> provides a wholly South Australian perspective on the impact of the Great War on individuals, on families and on our state’s coastal, regional, and outback communities.<\/p>\n

Read an Extract >><\/a><\/h5>\n

Copies are available online<\/a>, and from our bookshop in Mile End.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Veterans SA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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