Lost boys of Anzac / Peter Stanley ; cover design Sandy Cull ; internal design Josephine Pajor-Markus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Cull, Sandy, cover designer.

Pajor-Markus, Josephine, designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian.

Soldiers--Australia.

Soldiers.

Australia. Australian Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921). Division, 1st--History.

Australia.

Australia. Australian Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, New South Wales : NewSouth, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war? Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 and who died on that day. There were exactly 101 of them. They were the first to volunteer, the first to go into action, and the first of the 60,000 Australians killed in that conflict.Lost Boys of Anzac traces who these men were, where they came from

Contents:

Cover

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright

Contents

Note on text

Map

Prologue: The Lost Boys

Introduction

The list of Lost Boys, 1914

Part I: Lost Boys in 1914

Australia in 1914

'He joined at once': volunteers for the AIF

'We hail from busy Rundle Street': callings

'A roamer': on the tramp

'The opportunity in Australia': migrants

'A born soldier': officers

State school to 'Varsity men: education

Part II: Lost Boys in Uniform

'Well and truly serve': enlistment

'What a soldier ought to be': military experience

'Australian Expeditionary Force': in camp

'Full of incident': the voyage to Egypt

'Healthy, keen, spirited and adventurous': Egypt

'No thought of the death that awaits':to Lemnos

'We may be cut up': orders for the landing

Part III: Lost Boys on Gallipoli

'Not seen to land': in the water

'Rushed heights above shores': the advance inland

'Have we come too far?': the advanced parties

'The vital ground': the fight for Baby 700

'Under a very heavy fire': the fight for the ridges

'Jacko got his shrapnel into them': artillery fire

'Wounded out in front': the fate of the furthest parties

'Dig in for night': the day ends

Part IV: Lost Boys Missing

'Lost after the landing': comrades mourn

'There is no report that he died': casualty lists

'Prompt and sympathetic attention': Base Records

'Sad intelligence soon spread': delivering the news

'Something is wrong': delays in informing families

'No trace': the missing

'What does "missing" mean?': the Red Cross's searchers

'Still on active service': ghosts of the Lost Boys

'He must be a prisoner': Lost Boys captured?

'Waiting most anxiously': families on tenterhooks

Part V: Lost Boys Dead

'Killed in action': the courts of enquiry.

'Deceased soldiers' affairs': administrative consequences

'Money matters': pensions granted, and not

'His mother's only support': bereaved parents

'The belongings of their boys': soldiers' effects

'Such a lot of letter-writing': complications

'Yes, a brother killed in action': bereaved families and the war

'Harry alive': hopes fade

Part VI: Lost Boys Remembered

'Memory's golden chain': in memoriam

'A gap that will never be filled': return to Gallipoli

'The circumstances surrounding his death': the circulars

'To a grave so far away': burial

'One vast graveyard': the cemeteries

'Before the pilgrimages come': the Lost Boys' graves

'His death is shrouded in mystery': the lost

'Never recovered': the effects of war

Epilogue: The Lost Boys today

Acknowledgements

Appendix 1: The Lost Boys of Anzac

Appendix 2: Note on Sources and Methods

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 1, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74224-671-0

1-74224-169-7

OCLC:

881509929