The first Snowball March, shoeleather recruiting drives, commended in New South Wales when 26 men left Gilgandra on the "Cooee" March, so named for their recruitment call as they proceeded.
The word "cooee" originates from the Dharug language of Aboriginal Australians in the Sydney area. and was a cry to attract attention.
Elsewhere in Australia, the German Club in Sydney was targeted by anti-German sentiment in an editorial in The Mirror of Australia claiming that the club was housing Germans who had been ejected from their lodgings.
In spite of the view generally expressed here, the notable figure of Albert Cashier, Civil War veteran, died on this day.
Cashier had been born in Ireland as Jennie Irene Hodgers and was, in fact, female, but she enlisted as a man and assumed a male identify until her death at age 71. She had assumed a male identify prior to the war. There were several instances after the war when her true sex was discovered, but for the most part, until 1914 when dementia set in, those who knew it chose to ignore it.
An interesting aspect of this story, which isn't wholly unique, is that her sex was not discovered during her military service. Having served in the military myself, this is really hard to grasp, but is apparently the case. In her old age, when her sex was discovered and it endangered her pension, her wartime comrades came to her aid.
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