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98. McCrae, Dorothy Frances.

The clear call / by Dorothy Frances McCrae (Mrs. C.E. Perry) (Melbourne : George Robertson, [1915])

The clear call

Dorothy McCrae’s book of patriotic verse, Soldier, my soldier! (1914) was her best-known work, but The clear call, another attempt to inspire men to join up, has a definitive cover image, showing a bugler, inset above men going into battle.

An advertisement for the book appears on the back of Soldier-songs from Anzac (item 100). The heading is “The war from a woman’s point of view”. The appeal of Dorothy McCrae’s book is summarised as follows,

The clear call is a new book of stirring poems, many of them eulogising the heroic deeds of the Australian soldiers at Gallipoli, and all imbued with the sentiment of patriotism as expressed in the hearts of the mothers, sisters, and wives of Australia.

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