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Odyssey of the unknown Anzac /
In 1928 the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia produced 10,000 copies of a poster asking for help identifying a patient, believed to be a returned soldier, now in Sydney's Callan Park Mental Hospital. The response of members of the public hoping that this might be their...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Victoria :
Monash University Publishing,
2018.
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| Colección: | History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1928 the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia produced 10,000 copies of a poster asking for help identifying a patient, believed to be a returned soldier, now in Sydney's Callan Park Mental Hospital. The response of members of the public hoping that this might be their lost father, brother, or son, was overwhelming. Miraculously, the family of this unknown Anzac was located, in Taranaki, New Zealand. The resulting, happy blaze of newspaper and radio attention conveyed, obliquely, the continuing existence of widespread unresolved grief, as the final fate and resting pla. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1925523543 9781925523553 1925523551 9781925523546 |