How families at home rallied to support their WWI soldiers

By Lydia Roberts
Updated November 9 2018 - 6:02pm, first published 5:30pm
MOVE IT: Armidale Skating Rink, circa 1917, a source of entertainment for those on the home front.
MOVE IT: Armidale Skating Rink, circa 1917, a source of entertainment for those on the home front.

IT'S a hot evening in February, 1916, and residents are pouring into Armidale Town Hall to decide whether the school of arts building should be turned into a soldiers' club.

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