Australian Great War Poetry

• Poet Name

  • Birth/Death - Origin
    • Poetry​ (Book, Poem)

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​Australian born and living in the Australia

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~~~New South Wales

1. Henry Lawson

   1. 17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922: Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales

      1. My Army, O, my Army! (Book)

      2. Song of the Dardanelles and Other Verses (Book)

      3. Song of the Dardanelles (Poem)

      4. My Army, O, my Army! (Poem)

      5. A Mate can do no Wrong (Poem)

      6. Scots of the Riverina (Poem)

      7. The Star of Australasia (Poem)

      8. The Recruits (Poem)

      9. Come Back Again (The Return) (Poem)

      10. The Route March (Poem)

      11. England Yet (Poem)

2. Patrick Joseph Hartigan (aka John O’Brien)

   1. 13 October 1878 – 27 December 1952: Yass, New South Wales

      1. Around the Boree Log (Book)

      2. Ownerless (Poem)

3. John Le Gay Brereton

   1. 2 September 1871 – 1933: Sydney, N.S.W.

      1. John Le Gay Brereton 73 poems (Book)

      2. The Burning Marl (Book)

         1. For Valour (Poem)

         2. Anzac (Poem)

         3. Light Loss (Poem)

4. Christopher Brennan

   1. 1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932: Sydney, N.S.W.

      1. A Chant Of Doom and Other Verses (Book)

      2. Poems (1913) (Book)

         1. Lions of War (Poem)

5. Roderic Quinn

   1. 26 November 1867 – 15 August 1949: Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales

      1. Poems (Book)

         1. The Soul of the Anzac (Poem)​

         2. The Dread Beyond Death (Poem)

         3. The Twenty-Fifth of April (Poem)

6. Frederick Spence Burnell

   1. 1880 – 19??: Sydney, New South Wales

      1. To the Allied Dead (Poem)

7. Kenneth Adolf Slessor

   1. 27 March 1901 - 30 June 1971: Orange, New South Wales

      1. Goin' (Poem)

8. Dowell O’Reilly

   1. 18 July 1865 – 5 November 1923: Sydney, New South Wales

      1. ​

9. Tom Inglis Moore

   1. 28 September 1901 - 23 July 1978: Glenmore, New South Wales

      1. ​

10. R.D. FitzGerald

    1. 22 February 1902 – 24 May 1987: Hunters Hill, New South Wales

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~~~Victoria

1. Archibald T. Strong

   1. 30 December 1876 – 2 September 1930: South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria

      1. Australia to England (Poem)

      2. Vain Death (Poem)

2. Leonard Nelson

   1. c1864 – c1953: Melbourne and raised in Kew, Victoria

      1. Dinky-Di Soldier And Other Jingles (Book)

         1. My Missus Ses to Me (Poem)​

3. Edward Dyson

   1. 4 March 1865 – 22 August 1931: Morrison, near the Ballarat goldfields, Victoria

      1. Hello Solder! Khaki Verse (Book)

         1. Billjim (Poem)​

4. Leslie Holdsworth Allen

   1. 21 June 1879 – 5 January 1964: Maryborough, Victoria

      1. Gallipoli (Poem)

5. Montague MacGregor Grover

   1. 31 May 1870 – 7 March 1943: West Melbourne, Victoria

      1. Anzac (April 25, 1915) (Poem)

6. Guy Innes

   1. 1879 – 1953: Ballarat, Victoria

      1. Anzac (Poem)

      2. Virtus Viret (Poem)

      3. The Tricolour (Poem)

7. Alan Durward Mickle

   1. 1882 – 1969: Melbourne, Victoria

      1. The Soldier (Poem)

8. Bernard Patrick O’Dowd

   1. 11 April 1866 - 1 September 1953: Beaufort, Victoria

      1. Louvain! Ah, Louvain! (Poem)

9. Frank Samuel Williamson

   1. 19 January 1865 – 6 February 1936: Melbourne, Victoria

      1. Comrades Three (Poem)

10. Frank Leslie Thompson (‘Furnley Maurice’) Wilmot

    1. 6 April 1881 - 22 February 1942: Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria

       1. To God: From the Waring Nations (Poem)

11. Hugh McCrae

    1. 4 October 1876 - 17 February 1958: Anchorfield, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria

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~~~South Australia

1. C.J. Dennis

   1. 7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938: Auburn, South Australia

      1. The Moods of Ginger Mick (Book)

      2. Backblock Ballads And Later Verses (Book)

         1. The Battle of the Wazzir (Poem)

         2. Sari Bair (Poem)

         3. ​The Austral—aise (Poem)

2. Shaw Neilson

   1. 22 February 1872 - 12 May 1942: Penola, South Australia

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~~~Queensland

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~~~Western Australia

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~~~Tasmania

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~~~Unknown Australia

1. L.E. Honfray

   1. 18?? – 19??: Australia

      1. Australians, Awake (Book)

2. H.D. McL (re: Alan Durward Mickle)

   1. 18?? – 19??: Australia

      1. In Memory of a Young Australian Soldier (Poem)

3. E. J. Dempsey

   1. 188?? - 19??: Australia​

      1. The Blood Vote​ (see William Robert Winspear)

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Australian born and living overseas

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New Zealand

1. Arthur Henry Adams

   1. 6 June 1872 – 4 March 1936: Lawrence, New Zealand​​

      1. The Six-Starred Flag of Anzac (Poem)

      2. The Trojan War, 1915 (Poem)

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Foreign born and living in the Australia​​

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~~~England

1. Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon

   1. 20 March 1865 – 26 September 1958: Leeds, Yorkshire, England: [migrated 1889 – 24]​​​

      1. To England (Poem)

2. James Hebblethwaite

   1. 22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921: Preston, Lancashire, England: [migrated 1890 – 33]

      1. If we Forget (Poem)

3. William Robert Winspear (see E. J. Dempsey)

   1. 16 February 1859 - 20 February 1944: Ferryhill, Durham, England: [migrated 1874 - 15]

      1. The Blood Vote (Poem) note: E. J. Dempsey is the real author of this poem

4. Charles Ridgway (aka: Charles Vaude)

   1. 9 June 1882 – 29 October 1942: London: [migrated 1902 – 20]

      1. If England needs a hand well here it is (Music)

5. Skipper Francis

   1. 17 January, 1864 – 9 June, 1930: London

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6. Arthur St. John Adcock (aka: Lance Corporal Cobber)

   1. 1864-1930: England

      1. The Anzac Pilgrim’s Progress – Ballads of Australia’s Army (Book)

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~~~Ireland

1. Fr M.J. O’Reilly

   1. 15 July 1866 - 25 September 1933: Roches Row, Queenstown, Cork, Ireland: [migrated 1892 – 26]

      1. Right to the End (Poem)

2. John (‘Oriel’) Sandes

   1. 26 February 1863 – 29 November 1938: Cork, Ireland: [migrated 1887 - 24]

      1. Ballads of Battle (Boer War) (Book)

      2. Australians to the Front (Poem)

      3. The Call (Poem)

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~~~Scotland

1. William Ogilvie

   1. 21 August 1869 – 30 January 1963: Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland: [migrated 1889 – 20]

      1. The Australian, and Other Verses (Book)

      2. The Australian (Poem)

      3. A Song of the Old Men (Poem)

      4. Goodbye, Australians (Poem)

2. Charles Henry Souter

   1. 11 October 1864 - 20 August 1944: Aberdeen, Scotland: [migrated 1879 - 15]

      1. The Toast (Poem)

      2. The Tenth (Poem)

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Unknown origin and living in the Australia

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