SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: The authors warmly acknowledge the family of Bernard Haines and the assistance of Dr Amshuman Rao in reading and interpreting the extensive medical case notes relevant to this story. This story draws on Bernard Haines’ service dossier NAA: B2455, HAINES C; and his repatriation file NAA: B73, R14400. This imagined narrative is based on a close reading of these official records. The story of ‘Babe Haines’ and his long painful death were reported on in the press and this story has drawn on many of the contemporary newspaper articles. For further reading on repatriation see Marina Larsson, Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009).