Mervyn Higgins

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on Captain Higgins’ service dossier NAA: B2455, HIGGINS M B CAPTAIN; and his Red Cross Wounded and Missing file AWM 1DRL/0428. This story also draws on the extensive archival collections held by the National Library of Australia and Australian War Memorial, Higgins Papers NLA MS 2525; Higgins Papers NLA MS1057; Higgins, Mervyn Bournes AWM 3DRL/0421. For further reading on Henry Higgins, his bereavement and his pilgrimage see Bruce Scates, Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). There are also a number of outstanding biographies including Nettie Palmer, Henry Bournes Higgins: A Memoir (London: Harrap, 1931) and John Rickard, Henry Higgins: The Rebel as Judge (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1984).