Tag: Leslies in Australia
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The Leslie Papers Transcribed in Australia
The Leslie Papers Transcribed While searching for information on Leslie Papers in Australia, I came across this blog post. The Leslie Papers Transcribed https://learnearnandreturn.wordpress .com/tag/george-leslie/ The author reported that she was reading through the Leslie Family papers housed at the John Oxley Library in the State Library in Queensland. The Leslie papers are a collection Read more
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Week 10: Interwar Exodus
While this is a belated blog entry, the time period between WWI and WWII was a very significant time in the history of the Scottish Diaspora. In WWI, New Zealand lost 17,000 men. Australia lost over 60,000 men with another 150,000 wounded. Lastly, Canada lost over 60,000 men during the war. The loss of men Read more