Odyssey of the unknown Anzac / David Hastings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hastings, David, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Biography.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

In 1928 theReturned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia produced 10,000copies of a poster asking for help identifying a patient, believed to be areturned soldier, now in Sydney's Callan Park Mental Hospital. The response ofmembers of the public hoping that this might be their lost father, brother, orson, was overwhelming. Miraculously, the family of this unknown Anzac was located, in Taranaki, New Zealand. The resulting, happy blaze of newspaper andradio attention conveyed, obliquely, the continuing existence of widespreadunresolved grief, as the final fate and resting place of a third of thesenations' war dead were unknown. And this man, now being taken home by hismother and sister, was no longer the healthy youngster who had sailed toGallipoli over a decade before. The story of what happened to George McQuay, ofwhat he suffered and how he survived, speaks of the dehumanising effects of warwith unique power.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925523-54-3

1-925523-55-1