This portrait of Slessor was taken in 1940 before he sailed to England. He believed that his work was important 'to keep up the morale of the people at home … also to stimulate the enlistment of volunteers for future reinforcements'.3 [AWM 001830]
- 3Clement Semmler (ed.), War diaries of Kenneth Slessor, University of Queensland Press, 1985, p. 578
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AWM 001830
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Australian War Memorial