author
Rita Macleod
Best known for documenting the wartime efforts of Brisbane women, this early 20th-century writer left behind a vivid record of community service during World War I. Her work also reaches into song, showing a small but interesting place in Australian cultural history.
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For the Sake of the Soldier: Voluntary Work of Brisbane Women
by Rita Macleod
About the author
Rita MacLeod is known for For the Sake of the Soldier: Voluntary Work of Brisbane Women, an early 20th-century book about women’s voluntary work in Brisbane during World War I. Library and literary records confirm the book and identify her as an Australian writer associated with that period.
Available reference sources also note that she wrote the words for The Flying Song in 1920, with music by Herbert Clarke. That surviving record suggests a writer whose work moved between historical documentation and occasional lyric writing.
Very little widely available biographical detail appears to be confirmed online beyond her published work, so the clearest picture of her comes through what she wrote: a contemporary account preserving the energy, patriotism, and practical labor of Brisbane women in wartime.