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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Note on text
Map of Gallipoli
Prologue: The Lost Boys
Introduction
The list of Lost Boys, 1914
Part I: Lost Boys in 1914
Australia in 1914
‘He joined at once’: volunteers for the AIF
‘We hail from busy Rundle Street’: callings
‘A roamer’: on the tramp
‘The opportunity in Australia’: migrants
‘A born soldier’: officers
State school to ’Varsity men: education
Part II: Lost Boys in uniform
‘Well and truly serve’: enlistment
‘What a soldier ought to be’: military experience
‘Australian Expeditionary Force’: in camp
‘Full of incident’: the voyage to Egypt
‘Healthy, keen, spirited and adventurous’: Egypt
‘No thought of the death that awaits’: to Lemnos
‘We may be cut up’: orders for the landing
Part III: Lost Boys on Gallipoli
‘Not seen to land’: in the water
‘Rushed heights above shores’: the advance inland
‘Have we come too far?’: the advanced parties
‘The vital ground’: the fight for Baby 700
‘Under a very heavy fire’: the fight for the ridges
‘Jacko got his shrapnel into them’: artillery fire
‘Wounded out in front’: the fate of the furthest parties
‘Dig in for night’: the day ends
Part IV: Lost Boys missing
‘Lost after the landing’: comrades mourn
‘There is no report that he died’: casualty lists
‘Prompt and sympathetic attention’: Base Records
‘Sad intelligence soon spread’: delivering the news
‘Something is wrong’: delays in informing families
‘No trace’: the missing
‘What does “missing” mean?’: the Red Cross’s searchers
‘Still on active service’: ghosts of the Lost Boys
‘He must be a prisoner’: Lost Boys captured?
‘Waiting most anxiously’: families on tenterhooks
Part V: Lost Boys dead
‘Killed in action’: the courts of enquiry
‘Deceased soldiers’ affairs’: administrative consequences
‘Money matters’: pensions granted, and not
‘His mother’s only support’: bereaved parents
‘The belongings of their boys’: soldiers’ effects
‘Such a lot of letter-writing’: complications
‘Yes, a brother killed in action’: bereaved families and the war
‘Harry alive’: hopes fade
Part VI: Lost Boys remembered
‘Memory’s golden chain’: in memoriam
‘A gap that will never be filled’: return to Gallipoli
‘The circumstances surrounding his death’: the circulars
‘To a grave so far away’: burial
‘One vast graveyard’: the cemeteries
‘Before the pilgrimages come’: the Lost Boys’ graves
‘His death is shrouded in mystery’: the lost
‘Never recovered’: the effects of war
Epilogue: The Lost Boys today
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: The Lost Boys of Anzac
Appendix 2: Note on sources and methods
Select bibliography
Index
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