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Research paper thumbnail of Epidemics and War: A secret bond between memory and forgetting; the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918-19 as experienced by AIF troops quarantined in Australian ports – January 1919.

First International Conference on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1998

This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the Australian military at the war's end, throu... more This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the Australian military at the war's end, through the scrutiny of reports on the behaviour of repatriated troops in hospital troopships, while quarantined or docked at the major ports of Australia. Melbourne, formerly the federal capital and site of the war cabinet is featured. It provides a re-appraisal of elements of the war's forgotten end point, bound up within the creation of an Australian ur-myth and yet not remembered.

Research paper thumbnail of Epidemics and War: A secret bond between memory and forgetting; the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918-19 as experienced by AIF troops quarantined in Australian ports – January 1919.

First International Conference on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1998

This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the Australian military at the war's end, throu... more This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on the Australian military at the war's end, through the scrutiny of reports on the behaviour of repatriated troops in hospital troopships, while quarantined or docked at the major ports of Australia. Melbourne, formerly the federal capital and site of the war cabinet is featured. It provides a re-appraisal of elements of the war's forgotten end point, bound up within the creation of an Australian ur-myth and yet not remembered.

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