"IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PIONEERS."
Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Saturday 19 September 1942, page 13
An Australian soldier gazes unafraid into the stormy future, but behind him is the tradition of his ancestors. In 1824, the 27-year-old Hamilton Hume, with William Hilton Hovell, pioneered the route between Lake George, NSW, and Port Phillip, Victoria. They were the first white men to traverse what has since become the busiest interstate road and rail highway in Australia. Today the young men of Australia tramp along that highway, girt with the modern weapons of war and aflame with the will to keep what their forefathers created.
