CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements

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Prologue Egypt 1915: a military, medical, and moral problem

PART I

Chapter 1 William Birdwood, William Bridges, and Charles Bean: sodden with drink or rotten from women

Chapter 2 James Barrett and John Brady Nash: the isolation-detention barracks at Abbassia

Chapter 3 The Voyage of the Wiltshire: la nef des fous

Chapter 4 Robert Williams and Walter Conder: the isolation-detention barracks at Langwarrin

PART II

Chapter 5 Ernest Dunbar, John Dunbar, and John Beech: O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!

Chapter 6 Maurice Buckley and Gerald Sexton: the great Sergeant Buckley, VC, DCM

Chapter 7 Richard Waltham and Harold Glading: the secrets of the dead

Chapter 8 Albert Crozier and Michael Willis: just a silly streak — he was young at the time

PART III

Chapter 9 Graham Butler and John Cumpston: Australia receives a shock

Chapter 10 Major Conder and the End of Langwarrin: a triumph of science and sympathy over righteousness

Appendixes

A Misconduct, Bravery, VD, and VCs

B Preventing, Curing, and Testing for Venereal Diseases in the Australian Army, 1914–1919

Notes

Bibliography