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What Became of the ANZACs?

Published: April 1, 2014, 1:38 a.m.

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25 March 2014 - Professor Bruce Scates

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In the lead up to the Centenary of the Great War, the Australian and New Zealand governments will embark on a great initiative, one destined to change the way that conflict is remembered.\\xa0 \\u2018Project Albany\\u2019 will involve the digitisation of tens of thousands of repatriation files, charting what happened to the diggers who came home.\\xa0 What became of the casualties of war:\\xa0 the gassed, the blind, the crippled, the insane?\\xa0 Who cared for them?\\xa0 How did they cope with the trauma of war?\\xa0 And did Australian servicemen and women return to the \\u2018Land Fit for Heroes\\u2019 they were promised?\\xa0 The digitisation of service records will open a new chapter in our understanding of war.\\xa0 Thousands of Australians, young and old, have consulted War Service Dossiers on the National Archives Website but this new resource will enable families to chart the life of a relative through the post war period \\u2013 and to see his battle didn\\u2019t end when the guns stopped firing.

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Join historian Professor Bruce Scates on a journey through one of the richest historical records available for World War One.\\xa0 Professor Scates leads the 100 Stories Project at Monash University.\\xa0 He wrote the history of the Shrine, A Place to Remember, and is currently researching the history of Soldier Settlement and the history of Anzac Day.\\xa0 He is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia.

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