Australians on the Western Front: Sport a balm for soldiers’ souls

By Michael Grealy
December 8 2018 - 12:00pm
GLORY: Australia’s winning King’s Cup team, July 1919. Picture: AWM D00725
GLORY: Australia’s winning King’s Cup team, July 1919. Picture: AWM D00725

Sport a balm for soldiers’ souls

Major Sydney Middleton, a pre-War Olympian in rowing and rugby, became organising secretary of the AIF Sports Control Board in January 1919.