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Introduction
The Soul of Our Nation
1 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
2 Australian War Memorial eNewsletter, 3 January 2013.
3 Author interview with James Waldron, March 2001.
4 Author interview with Al Greco, March 2001.
5 Author interview with Patrick Dunne, March 2001.
6 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
Chapter 1
The Flickering Film
1 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
2 Burra Record, 27 September 1938, p. 2.
3 Thomas, Sir Hubert Wilkins: His World of Adventure, p. 12.
4 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
5 Thomas, p. 10.
6 Thomas, p. 7.
7 Wilkins school reports, OSU uncatalogued.
8 Letter, T.J. Dunne to Annie Wilkins, 28 February 1958, OSU 16/37.
9 Letter, C.E. Simmons to Tom Wilkins, 15 February 1959, OSU 16/37.
10 Untitled speech, Ross.
11 Thomas, p. 13.
12 Untitled speech, Ross.
13 AWM 38-3drl 606-92-1, pdf 30.
14 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
15 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 11 June 1913, Larson.
16 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
17 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
18 Daily News (Perth), 20 December 1911, p. 3.
19 Wilkins undated note, OSU, Box 12.
20 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
Chapter 2
You and Your Camera are Cursed
1 Wilkins speech, OSU 13/8.
2 Thomas, p. 28.
3 Wilkins speech, OSU 13/8.
4 Gibbs, The Balkan War, p. 156.
5 Wilkins speech, OSU 13/8.
6 Thomas, p. 31.
7 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/14.
8 ibid.
9 Gibbs, p. 165.
10 Wilkins speech, OSU 13/8.
11 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 20 December 1912, OSU 13/8.
12 Wilkins speech, OSU 13/8.
Chapter 3
One Gigantic Holiday
1 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 11 June 1913, Larson.
2 Stefansson, The Northward Course of the Empire, p. 7.
3 Letter, Wilkins to Tom Wilkins, 5 April 1913, South Australian Museum.
4 McKinlay, The Last Voyage of the Karluk, p.10.
5 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 19 June 1913, Larson.
6 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 1 August 1913, Larson.
7 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 17 October, 1913, Larson.
8 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 26 October 1913, Larson.
9 Jenness, The Making of an Explorer, p. 87.
10 Letter, Stefansson to Wilkins, 6 April 1914, Larson.
11 ibid.
12 Jenness, p. 124.
13 Jenness, p. 128.
14 Jenness, p. 129.
Chapter 4
A Little World of Our Own
1 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 7 February 1915, Larson.
2 Argus (Melbourne), 3 August 1914, p. 14.
3 Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 1915, p. 7.
4 Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1915, p. 6.
5 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 7 February 1915, Larson.
6 Jenness, p. 169.
7 Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, p. 291.
8 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 7 February 1915, Larson.
9 Letter, Wilkins to Parents, 17 August 1915, Larson.
10 Sydney Morning Herald, 15 May 1915, p. 14.
11 Sydney Morning Herald, 8 May 1915, p. 13.
12 Jenness, p. 222 and 224.
13 Jenness, p. 251.
Chapter 5
The Nearness of the Creator
1 Wilkins speech, OSU 20/12.
2 Jenness, p. 274.
3 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 2/1.
4 King, Great Battles in Australian History, p. 96.
5 Lakin, Contact, p. 62.
6 AWM 38-3drl 606-49-1, pdf 33.
7 AWM 38-3drl 606-54-1, pdf 152.
8 AWM 38-3drl 606-55-1, pdf 68.
9 AWM 38-3drl 606-56-1, pdf 53/54.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-94-1, pdf 77.
11 McKernan, Here is Their Spirit, p. 35.
Chapter 6
The World’s Affairs
1 Wilkins report, OSU 13/11.
2 Dixon and Lee, The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912 — 1941, p. xi.
3 Wilkins, Flying the Arctic, p. 3.
4 AWM 38-3drl 606-73-1, pdf 14.
5 AWM 38-3drl 606-66-1, pdf 66.
6 AWM 38-3drl 606-75-1, pdf 51.
7 Treloar, John Linton, Diary, AWM.
8 AWM 38-3drl 606-82-1, pdf 5.
9 AWM 38-3drl 606-86-1, pdf 64.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-84-1, pdf 66.
11 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
12 AWM 38-3drl 606-87-1.
Chapter 7
An Historical Point of View
1 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
2 Thomas, p. 86.
3 Hurley Diary, 21 Aug 1917.
4 Thomas, p. 86.
5 ibid.
6 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
7 Hurley Diary, 24 August 1917.
8 Hurley Diary, 25 August 1917.
9 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 30 August 1917, Ross.
10 Hurley Diary, 31 August 1917.
11 Hurley Diary, 1 September 1917.
12 Hurley Diary, 3 September 1917.
13 ibid.
14 Censor’s Lists, OSU 38/4.
15 Hurley Diary, 10 September 1917.
16 Hurley Diary, 2 October 1917.
17 Hurley Diary, 6 September 1917.
18 AWM 38-3drl 606-88-1, pdf 54.
19 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
Chapter 8
Charley Bean and I
1 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 2/1.
2 Hurley Diary, 20 September 1917.
3 ibid.
4 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/15.
5 AWM 38-3drl 606-88-1, pdf 88.
6 Hurley Diary, 26 Sept 1917.
7 Bean, Charles, Anzac to Amiens, p. 368.
8 Hurley Diary, 26 Sept 1917.
9 ibid.
10 Hurley Diary, 1 October 1917.
11 Hurley Diary, 2 October 1917.
12 Hurley Diary, 3 October 1917.
13 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
14 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 1/15.
15 ibid.
16 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 2/1.
17 AWM28 War Records Section Collection 2 Box 22/4.
18 AWM 38-3drl 606-93-1, pdf 32.
19 AWM Caption E00737.
20 Hurley Diary, 29 October 1917.
21 Captured in Colour, Travelling Exhibition Catalogue, AWM.
Chapter 9
Dash In, Get Photographs
1 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
2 Hurley Diary, 10 November 1917.
3 Wilkins, Australian War Photographs, p. 4.
4 AWM 38-3drl 606-101-1, pdf 46.
5 AWM 38-3drl 606-94-1, pdf 17.
6 AWM 38-3drl 606-94-1, pdf 20.
7 AWM 38-3drl 606-94-1, pdf 24.
8 AWM 38-3drl 606-94-1, pdf 22.
9 The Times (London), 3 January 1918, p. 3.
10 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 28 December 1917, OSU 12/5.
11 AWM 38-3drl 606-95-1, pdf 46.
12 AWM 38-3drl 606-96-1, pdf 27.
13 AWM 38-3drl 606-96-1, pdf 38.
14 Hurley Diary, 16 December 1917.
15 Rees, Desert Boys, p. 240.
16 Rees, caption.
17 Hurley Diary, 30 January 1918.
18 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
19 ibid.
20 http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/with-the-australians-in-france/notes.
Chapter 10
I Do Not Carry Arms for Fighting
1 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 28 August 1918, OSU 12/6.
2 Thomas, p. 91.
3 Wilkins, Australian War Photographs, p. 22.
4 AWM 38-3drl 606-102-1, pdf 36.
5 AWM 38-3drl 606-103-1, pdf 4.
6 AWM 38-3drl 606-103-1, pdf 8.
7 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
8 Thomas, p. 91.
9 AWM 38-3drl 606-103-1, pdf 71.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-105-1, pdf 4.
11 AWM 38-3drl 606-105-1, pdf 6.
12 AWM 38-3drl 606-105-1, pdf 29.
13 AWM 38-3drl 606-105-1, pdf 34.
14 AWM 38-3drl 606-107-1, pdf 26.
15 AWM 38-3drl 606-107-1, pdf 47.
16 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 28 April 1919, OSU 12/7.
Chapter 11
The Perfume of Apple and Cherry Blossoms
1 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
2 AWM 38-3drl 606-107-1 pdf 42–48.
3 McMullin, Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius.
4 Lindsay, Daryl, The Leafy Tree, p. 111.
5 Official History, Volume VI, p. 8.
6 AWM 38-3drl 606-109-1, pdf 40.
7 AWM 38-3drl 606-109-1, pdf 40.
8 McMullin.
9 Lakin, p. 68.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-111-1, pdf 10.
11 AWM 38-3drl 606-111-1, pdf 3.
12 Hurley Diary, 7 May 1918.
13 Hurley Diary, 8 May 1918.
14 Hurley Diary, 15/16 May 1918.
15 Hurley Diary, 17 May 1918.
16 Hurley Diary, 24/25 May 1918.
17 Hurley Diary, 25 May 1918.
18 Hurley Diary, 30 May 1918.
19 AWM 38-3drl 606-114-1, pdf 3.
20 Hurley Diary, 6-8 June 1918.
21 Hurley Diary, 4 June 1918.
22 Hurley Diary, 14-21 June 1918.
23 Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 1918, p. 12.
24 Official History, Volume I, xxvi.
Chapter 12
A Garden of Eden
1 Wilkins speech, OSU 20/12.
2 Cobar Herald, 12 January 1901, p. 2.
3 Wilkins speech, OSU 20/6.
4 Wilkins speech, OSU 20/12.
5 McCarthy, Gallipoli to the Somme, p. 283.
6 Monash, The Australian Victories in France, p. 44.
7 Monash, p. 50.
8 AWM 38-3drl 606-114-1, pdf 49.
9 AWM 38-3drl 606-115-1(1), pdf 19.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 20.
11 Thomas, p. 93.
12 Monash, p. 56.
13 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 26.
14 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 78.
15 AWM Caption E02866.
16 AWM Caption E02900.
17 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 84.
18 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 28 August 1918, OSU 12/6.
Chapter 13
The Enemies of All Mankind
1 Thomas, p. 89.
2 Wilkins speech, OSU 20/12.
3 ibid.
4 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 100.
5 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 112.
6 Australian War Photographs, p. 82.
7 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 112.
8 Bendigonian (Victoria) 26 September 1918, p. 7.
9 King, p. 212.
10 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 123.
11 Herald (Melbourne), 9 September 1918, p. 1.
12 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 128.
13 Letter, Bean to Monash, 6 September 1918 AWM.
14 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 148.
15 Bean, Anzac to Amiens, p. 486.
16 Bean, Anzac to Amiens, p. 491.
17 Bean Diary, 29 September 1918.
18 Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 1919, p. 9.
19 Official History, Volume VI, p. 961.
20 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
21 AWM 38-3drl 606-117-1, pdf 12.
22 Official History, Volume VI, p. 962.
23 AWM 38-3drl 606-117-1, pdf 12.
24 AWM 38-3drl 6673/781.
25 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 20.
26 Wilkins unpublished manuscript, OSU 1/15.
Chapter 14
The Next Steps Towards Civilisation
1 Lecture notes, Wilkins, OSU 20/6.
2 AWM 38-3drl 606-116-1, pdf 14.
3 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 1.
4 Thomas, p. 97.
5 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 48.
6 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 50.
7 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 51.
8 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 280.
9 Lambert, Thirty Years an Artist’s Life, p 111.
10 Gooding, Gallipoli Revisited, p. 96.
11 Gooding, p. 93.
12 Bean, Gallipoli Mission, p. 25.
13 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 20 May 1919, Larson.
14 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 2/1.
15 ibid.
16 ibid.
Chapter 15
The Value of Getting the History
1 Wilkins manuscript, Ross.
2 Letter, Bean to Treloar, 13 September 1920, AWM 3DRL6673/781.
3 Wilkins manuscript, OSU 13.
4 The Olympian, Magazine of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company. Ltd. Leeds, U.K. Vol 3 No 1, February 1920.
5 Wilkins to Mother, 20 November 1919, OSU 13.
6 Wilkins notes, OSU 19/7.
7 Thomas, p. 104.
8 Sunday Times (Sydney), 25 July 1920, p. 2.
9 Thomas, p. 1.
10 Recorder (Port Pirie, South Australia), 21 July 1924, p. 4.
11 Letter, Bean to Treloar, 3 December 1920, AWM 3DRL6673/781.
12 The Advertiser (Adelaide), 18 November 1921, p. 13.
13 Davis Papers, Latrobe Library, Series VII, 3271/7.
14 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 7 August 1921, OSU 13/14.
15 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 21 October 1921, OSU Uncatalogued.
16 Melbourne Argus, 9 April 1924, p. 19.
17 Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, 13 June 1923, p. 6.
18 Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 1924, p. 13.
19 Burra Record, 2 July 1924, p. 4.
20 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 7 May 1925, Larson.
21 The Corowa Chronicle, 26 August 1925, p. 1.
22 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 11 August 1925, Larson.
23 ibid.
24 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 28 November 1925, Larson.
25 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 11 August 1925, Larson.
Chapter 16
Some Day Australia Will Understand
1 Letter, Wilkins to Mother, 3 November 1925, Larson.
2 Wilkins, Flying the Arctic, p. 10.
3 Wilkins, Flying the Arctic, p. 9.
4 Lura B. Shreck Papers, University of the Pacific, California.
5 Letter, Wilkins to Sister, undated, South Australian Museum.
6 The Argus (Melbourne), 6 October 1920, p. 9.
7 Wilkins speech, OSU 22/32.
8 The Daily Mail (Hull), 22 September 1928, p. 6.
9 Letter, Wilkins to Sister, 25 July 1929, South Australian Museum.
10 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, (undated), Larson.
11 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 14 September 1934, Larson.
12 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, February 1934, Larson.
13 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 16 August 1934, Larson.
14 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 31 August 1934, Larson.
15 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 2 September 1934, Larson.
16 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, (undated), Larson.
17 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 27 March 1935, Larson.
18 Wilkins and Sherman, Thoughts Through Space, p. 10.
19 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 19 February 1938, Larson.
20 Letter, Wilkins to Bennett, 3 March 1939, Larson.
Chapter 17
The Body the World Knows as Wilkins
1 Sherman, The Dead Are Alive, p. 145.
2 Caption on photograph, Ross.
3 Email, Rodzianko to Maynard, 11 February 2008.
4 Shamrock Auctions Flyer, Author’s Collection.
5 Author interview with Shamrock Auctions employee, 2 August 2001.
Afterword
We Wielders of the Mechanism
1 Letter, Wilkins to Bean, 20 November 1923, AWM38 3DRL6673 468.
2 Official History, Vol. VI, p. 1096.