This composite image from the Jean McPaul Collection, of the Eden Killer Whale Museum features several of the Towamba ‘eligibles’ who enlisted. Of the 11 men in the picture, eight of them are from two families: the Beasleys and the Sawers.
Back: Hampden Beasley, left, unknown.
Centre: Arthur Whitby (?), Ben Beasley, Robert Sawers, unknown, Arthur Peter Sawers.
Front: Ted Beasley, Harry Beasley, Alf Beasley.
Photo courtesy Eden Killer Whale Museum.
The Sydney Morning Herald
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16 May 1918
* A subscriber who signs himself "Wanderer" issues a challenge to any town to show a better record than Towamba, on the South Coast, in regard to the enlistment of eligibly men. He says: "Early in 1915 the police took the names of all eligibles in the police patrol district, and since then every eligible man has offered himself for active service. Only one man, who was rejected on three or more occasions, was unable to go into camp. However, this man has a number of brothers at the front."
A town without eligibles
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