George McQuay

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on contemporary newspaper reports; George McQuay’s service dossier R10927130, Archives New Zealand; and the records of Callan Park Mental Hospital. The latter were accessed (with the kind assistance of Belinda Saunders) in 2004. The authors thank NSW Health for permission to view the same and the Australian Research Council for funding. The most detailed treatment of the McQuay case is given by Jen Hawksley, ‘Long Time Coming Home: The Unknown Patient of Callan Park’, in Martin Crotty and Marina Larsson (eds), Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010) and her assistance is gratefully acknowledged. For similar cases based on asylum records see Tanya Luckins, Gates of Memory: Australian Peoples Experience and Memories of Loss and the Great War (Perth: Curtin University Press, 2004); Bruce Scates, Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Marina Larsson, Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009) and Alistair Thomson, Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, new edition, 2013). The authors thank the Friends of Callan Park (in particular Hall Greenland and Roslyn Burge) for their introduction to the important historic site.