SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on Norman Gibbins’ service dossier NAA: B2455, GIBBINS N; his Red Cross Wounded and Missing file AWM 1DRL/0428; and the Gibbins Papers AWM PR02053. For further reading on Violet Gibbins (or Gibbons, as she often went by), see Robyn Hanstock ‘“In the Spirit of the Navy”: Violet Gibbons and Osborne Ladies’ College, Blackheath’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 91, no. 1, June 2005, pp. 29–47. We also gratefully acknowledge the research of John Low on the life of Violet Gibbins. For a perceptive study of women’s experience of bereavement see Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).