ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This is another of our books which could not have been completed without the endless hours of research, advice and encouragement of Dock Bateson. To misquote, ‘This poor thing is not ours alone but hers as well’.

Our thanks are due to many people. They include in strictly alphabetical order: Gary Adsworth, Sunil Badami, JP Bean, Bob Bottom, Keith Bottomley, the late Clive Coleman, Sean Cowan, Nicholas Cowdery QC, Professor David Dixon, Michael Drury, Walter Easey, Dr Richard Evans, Tim Girling-Butcher, Sally Heath, Simon Illingworth, Barbara Levy, Damian Marrett, Bernie Matthews, Brian Murphy, Christine Nixon, Sybil Nolan, Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, John Rigbey, Russell Robinson, the late CH Rolph, Geoff Schuberg, Adam Shand, Clive Small and Joe Swickard, as well as many others who have asked not to be named.

Our thanks are also due to the staff at the National Library of Australia, the state libraries and archives of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as the National Archives in London, the British Library and the Newspaper Library formerly at Colindale.