Chapter 93 – Jayjay
Details from The Other Anzacs – Nurses at War, 1914-1918 by Peter Rees:
p. 155 – A description by nurse Kath King of arriving in Sydney on 8 February 1916, after a voyage from Cairo taking about a month. She describes cheering from ships and blowing of whistles.
Details from Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914-1918, Volume 1, Part 1: The Gallipoli Campaign by Arthur Butler:
p.537 – Returned “invalids” were given two weeks of leave, and then treated in hospital.
Details from Official History of the Australia in the war of 1914-1918, Volume XI, Australia During the War by Ernest Scott:
P, 834 – A photo of a returned soldier meeting his family at Randwick Military Hospital, Sydney.
Patsy Adam-Smith describes in The Anzacs , how leg amputees were sometimes given the nickname of “hoppy” (p. 3).