The nameless names
Subtitle: recovering the missings ANZACs
By: Scott Bennett
Publisher: Scribe
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781925713558
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Missing in action; Australian Participation; Campaigns; Fromelles, Battle of, Fromelles, France, 1916; Ypres, 1st Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1914; Military campaigns; Military participation; Australian; Fromelles, Battle of (France : 1916) fast (OCoLC)fst01755021; World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746; Ypres, 1st Battle of (Ieper, Belgium : 1914) fast (OCoLC)fst01709991
Description: Bennett deftly tells the story of such missing Anzacs through the personal experience of three sets of brothers - the Reids, Pflaums, and Allens - whose names he selected from the Memorials to the missing. Bennett traces their paths from small, peaceful towns to three devastating battlefields of the Great War Gallipoli, Fromelles, and Ypres. He reveals the carnage that led to their disappearance, and their family's subsequent grief and endless search for elusive facts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Coolgardie; title: 2. Gallipoli; title: 3. "Gentle sobbing in the south"; title: 4. The Red Cross; title: 5. Blumberg; title: 6. Fromelles; title: 7. Flickering hope; title: 8. Gion Gin; title: 9. Messines Ridge; title: 10. Ypres; title: 11. Villers-Bretonneux; title: 12. The unmourmable dead; title: 13. The Gallipoli mission; title: 14. Justice to the missing; title: 15. Justice done?; title: 16. Grasping for answers; title: 17. Commemoration; title: 18. Remembering; title: 19. Connecting to the past.