The secrets of the ANZACS : the untold story of venereal disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919 / Raden Dunbar. Untold story of venereal disease in the Australian Army, 1914-1919

Collection type	Library
Author	Dunbar, Raden, author.;
Call Number	616.95109041 D899
Document type	Monograph
Year	2014.
Pagination	xi, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Scribe Publications,
Note	Includes bibliography (pages 247-266) and index. This silent, secret scourge took hold in Cairo in 1914, and continued until 1919 when survivors of the war waited in Europe to be repatriated. Nobody wanted to know about it, at first and the general public back home was, of course, kept in the dark. Moralistic commanders in Egypt ordered strict punishments for men with VD, and the young victims were sent back to Australia in disgrace, most of them inventing amazing excuses for their inexplicable return. Many of them re-enlisted, but some felt they had to change their names to do so.
Place made	Brunswick, Vic. :

Abstract

Machine generated contents note: PART I -- ch. 1 William Birdwood, William Bridges, and Charles Bean: sodden with drink or rotten from women -- ch. 2 James Barrett and John Brady Nash: the isolation-detention barracks at Abbassia -- ch. 3 The Voyage of th e Wiltshire: la nef des fous -- ch. 4 Robert Williams and Walter Conder: the isolation-detention barracks at Langwarrin -- PART II -- ch. 5 Ernest Dunbar, John Dunbar, and John Beech: O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive! -- c h. 6 Maurice Buckley and Gerald Sexton: the great Sergeant Buckley, VC, DCM -- ch. 7 Richard Waltham and Harold Glading: the secrets of the dead -- ch. 8 Albert Crozier and Michael Willis: just a silly streak --- he was young at the time -- PART III -- ch . 9 Graham Butler and John Cumpston: Australia receives a shock -- ch. 10 Major Conder and the End of Langwarrin: a triumph of science and sympathy over righteousness -- Appendixes -- A.Misconduct, Bravery, VD, and VCs -- Contents note continued: B.Preventing, Curing, and Testing for Venereal Diseases in the Australian Army, 1914--1919.