Chapter 1 – Jayjay

Message from British Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Australian Governor General: “His Majesty’s Government gratefully accepts the offer of your Ministers to send a force of 20,000 men to this country.” Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1914, p. 14

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/1278855

Article: “THE DOMINIONS – KINGS MESSAGE – EMPIRE WILL STAND UNITED…”, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 1914, p. 13.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/1278854

[Australian] “force be at the complete discretion of the Home Government”: Cablegram from the Australian Prime Minister Joseph Cook to the British Government, cited by Charles Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 , vol I, p. 29.

NSW Rugby Football League match, 8 August 1914, Balmain Tigers v’s Glebe at Wentworth Oval, result 5-5:

http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/seasons/nswrfl-1914/round-12/balmain-vs-glebe/summary.html

Alan Smithers, in his biography Sir John Monash , states that Australia in 1915, with less than five million people and a small navy, could not defend her enormous coastline without the British Navy, nor prevent a determined attempt at invasion. He also states that if Britain was defeated, “Australia must inevitably become a part of the spoils of the victor.” (p. 38).