OUR ANZACS
The forgotten victims of war By Peter McCullough IN his book “Those We Forget�, published in 2014, David Noonan comments on the “casualties� which occurred after the cessation of hostilities in 1918 amongst the AIF men who were wounded or gassed: “... it is estimated that they now number 62,300 (plus or minus 400), about 550 by their own hand, mainly in 1919 and 1920, and a further 8000 men would die a premature death due to war-related causes in the post-war years.� In 1918 an entire government department - subsequently the Department of Veterans’ Affairs - came into being in Australia to try to look after those who were carried or had managed to walk or hobble home. The first artificial limb factory was opened at the Caulfield hospital in Melbourne. Eventually, Australia had six of these factories. Thousands of men ended their lives in sanatorium wards or boarding houses, still coughing from the gas. Peter Synan’s “The Dahlsen Story - A pioneering Family in Gippsland since 1862� provides an excellent illustration of the fate that befell some of those who returned. Fred Dahlsen enlisted in April, 1915 and saw service at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Debilitated by illness and the trauma of war, Fred was hospitalised for some time before returning to Melbourne in October, 1918. “There was no hero’s return to his home town of Bairnsdale for him, as he chose to withdraw to Acland Street, St Kilda, his mother’s residence. Although not officially declared ill or unfit, war it seems had worn him out, sapped his spirit. He retired from workaday life and is remembered by family as a pathetic figure, sitting huddled in the billiard room listening to a crystal radio set with his headphones, his social outings confined to a nearby hotel. Yet
this was a man of Gallipoli and Fromelles, the legendary defeats which had forged so much of the self-image of the young Australian nation.� Arthur Dahlsen, Fred’s older brother, enlisted in October, 1916. He joined the 8th Light Horse but his war was brief and tragic . He suffered a number of illnesses as well as a bullet wound to the back and neck, and before Christmas 1917 he was back in Melbourne on the hospital transport Wiltshire. Synan tells us: “He was too ill to return to his previous work in the family store in Bairnsdale. Soon he was thoroughly incapacitated, becoming a bed-ridden patient in turn at the Caulfield Military Hospital and Anzac Hospital. Despite being treated by the best specialists, Arthur died in October, 1920. It had been a thoroughly wretched war for him. Should he have indulged in self-pity well might he have envied his dead comrades of Gaza.� Other men were hidden away. Sergeant Martin O’Meara , a stretcher bearer, was awarded a VC for his bravery at Pozieres in 1916. For four days during heavy fighting he brought in wounded officers and men from no-man’s-land. Physically wounded and mentally shattered, he was “required to be kept in restraint� in the secluded Claremont Mental Hospital near Perth. O’Meara died alone from “chronic mania�, in 1935; he had spent 16 years in a straitjacket. While the numbers of returned men who took their own lives may have peaked in the immediate post-war years, the losses continued throughout the 1920s and appear to have risen again in the 1930s with the challenges posed by the Depression years. It was the early ‘30’s which claimed the lives of two of Australia’s best loved heroes of the Great War: Captain Hugo Throssell VC and Major General “Pompey� Elliott.
Above: Driver Fred Dahlsen and Pte Arthur Dahlsen.
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Cedar 190mm....................................... $4.95mt Primed Baltic Pine 170mm ................... $3.20mt
Yellow Tongue 3600x900mm ............... $44.00ea Plyoor 2.4x1.2x15mm ........................ $54.50ea
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1800x900 ............................................ $16.25ea
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125x75 ................................................. $8.75mt 100x100 ............................................... $9.25mt 125x125 ............................................. $14.75mt 150x150 ............................................. $24.00mt 70x19 Blanks......................................... $2.00mt
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BLUE BOARD 2400x900 ............................................ $27.50ea 2400x1200 .......................................... $36.75ea 2700x900 ............................................ $30.75ea 2700x1200 .......................................... $41.00ea 3000x900 ............................................ $33.75ea 3000x1200 .......................................... $45.00ea
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KDHW F17 90x35 ................................................... $5.40mt 90x45 ................................................... $6.95mt 140x45 ................................................$10.15mt 190x45 ............................................... $14.95mt 240x45 ............................................... $21.00mt 290x45 ............................................... $25.50mt
TREATED PINE POLES 75-100x1.8mt ...................................... $5.25ea 75-100x2.4mt ...................................... $7.50ea 75-100x3.0mt ...................................... $10.25ea 75-100x3.6mt ...................................... $13.50ea 100-125x1.8mt .................................... $8.50ea 100-125x2.4mt ................................... $11.25ea 100-125x3.0mt ................................... $18.50ea 100-125x3.6mt .................................. $21.25ea 100-125x2.4mt Splits ............................ $8.50ea
OBHW F8 50x25 ................................................... $1.25mt 75x38 ................................................... $2.75mt 125x38 ................................................. $4.65mt
MDF CRAFTWOOD 2400x1200x3mm ................................ $11.00ea 2400x1200x6mm ................................ $18.00ea 2400x1200x9mm ................................ $24.00ea 2400x1200x12mm .............................. $27.00ea 2400x1200x16mm .............................. $30.00ea 2400x1200x18mm .............................. $33.00ea
PARTICLEBOARD 18mm 2400x450 ............................................ $12.00ea 2400x600 ............................................ $16.00ea 2400x1200 .......................................... $32.00ea
POLYESTER BATTS R2.0 12pc $29.00 per bag R3.5 6pc $25.75 per bag
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200x50
PINE LINING 140x12 VJ/Regency .............................. $2.15mt 140x19 VJ/Floor.................................... $3.50mt
PINE DAR STD GRADE 42x19 ................................................... $1.10mt 70x19 ................................................... $1.45mt 90x19 ................................................... $1.80mt 120x19 ................................................. $2.20mt 140x19 ................................................. $2.65mt 190x19 ................................................. $4.00mt 240x19 ................................................. $5.75mt 290x19 ................................................. $7.95mt 140x12 ................................................. $2.15mt
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TREATED PINE R/S 100x12 Paling....................................... $0.65mt 150x12 Paling....................................... $0.95mt 150x25 ................................................. $2.00mt 75x50 ................................................... $2.40mt
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T/PINE F7/MGP10 – LASER CUT
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70x35 ................................................... $2.70mt
CYPRESS PINE PICKETS 70x19 900mm ....................................... $1.80ea 70x19 1200mm ..................................... $2.30ea 70x19 1500mm ..................................... $2.85ea 70x19 1800mm ..................................... $3.30ea
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T/PINE FASCIA PRIMED 190x32 D&G... ...................................... $9.50mt 240x32 D&G... .................................... $18.50mt
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PINE MERCH 90x35 ................................................... $1.25mt 90x45 ................................................... $1.60mt
PINE F7/MGP10 – LASER CUT 140x45 ................................................. $5.75mt 190x45 ................................................. $8.25mt 240x45 ............................................... $11.25mt
GALV SLEEPER CHANNEL ‘H’ SECTION $40.00MT ‘C’ SECTION $24.00MT
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