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Frank Wilkinson

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on the Wilkinson Papers courtesy Jill Fradd and her assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Other sources used include the Coroner’s Inquest of the deaths of Frank, Elizabeth and Isabella Wilkinson PROV VPRS24, 1927/1017; Frank Wilkinson’s service dossier NAA: B2455, WILKINSON FRANCIS EDELBERT; his repatriation record NAA: B73, R87683; and his soldier settlement file PROV VPRS5714, unit 1473, file 4147/12. The Wilkinson tragedy was reported on widely in the press and this story has drawn on many of the contemporary newspaper articles. The authors would like to thank George Gemmill, Secretary of the Stanhope RSL, for his generous assistance with this story. For further reading on postwar trauma see Jay Winter, ‘Shell shock’ in Jay Winter (ed), The Cambridge History of the First World War, vol. III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 310–333 and Tanja Lukins, The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War (Perth: Curtin University Press, 2004) and Richard Lindstrom, ‘The Australian Experience of Psychological Casualties in War 1915–1939’ (PhD thesis, Victoria University of Technology, 1997).

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