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National personification of Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Little Boy from Manly was a national personification of New South Wales and later Australia[citation needed] created by the cartoonist Livingston Hopkins of The Bulletin in April 1885.
In March 1885, as the New South Wales Contingent was about to depart for the Sudan, a letter was addressed to Premier William Bede Dalley containing a cheque for £25 for the Patriotic Fund 'with my best wishes from a little boy at Manly'. It was Australia's first overseas military adventure, and the little boy became a symbol either of Australian patriotism or, among opponents of the adventure, of mindless chauvinism. Hopkins put the boy in a cartoon, dressed in the pantaloons and frilled shirt associated with English storybook schoolboys of the namby-pamby kind. Over the following decades, he became The Bulletin's stock symbol of Young Australia.[1]
The 'Little Boy' has been identified as Ernest Laurence (1876–1963), later Alderman of Strathfield Council (1915–1920) and Mayor of Strathfield (1917–1918).[2]
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