The Queensland Recruiting Committee was a volunteer organisation in Queensland, Australia, which urged Queensland men to enlist for military service during World War I. It operated from May 1915 to December 1916, when it was replaced by an Australian Government recruitment organisation, the Queensland State Recruiting Committee.
"An appeal from the Dardanelles: Will they never come?" poster widely distributed in Queensland
Cover page of the booklet "For Queensland's Honour: Queensland Expects that Every Man will Do His Duty", 1916
Decorated recruiting train stopped Emerald
Robert Ramsay (cricketer)
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Robert Christian Ramsay was an English-born pastoralist and businessman who worked in Queensland, Australia. During the late 1880s, he was also an amateur cricketer who played for Harrow, Cambridge University and Somerset. In 1882, he also played for the Gentlemen of England under W.G. Grace.
