Australian War Graves Workers and World War One by Fred Cahir & Sara Weuffen & Matt Smith & Peter Bakker & Jo Caminiti

Author:Fred Cahir & Sara Weuffen & Matt Smith & Peter Bakker & Jo Caminiti
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811508493
Publisher: Springer Singapore

The men were also reported as saying: “War ceremonies aroused but little enthusiasm, and the one desire expressed by all was to work and forget as quickly as possible the ghastly experiences of the war period”.xlvii

Family legend has it that Frank had a whirlwind romance with his future wife Mabel Murray from Ireland who he had met on the ship journey back home. They married in October 1921. Upon returning to Australia in September 1921, a medical officer examined Frank like all Australian soldiers before official discharge from the AIF. Frank’s discharge papers note the condition of his discharge as “medically unfit” and that he had lodged a pension claim due to a “broken shoulder and wrist” that had occurred on service in France. The opinion of the Final Medical Board was that “disability is due to Military Service, and is not permanent”.xlviii In this period, the Army medical policy was to assign a percentage of disability according to how much a disability precluded your capacity to work in the “labour market.” Frank’s pension was allotted at “25% as from discharge” but dourly noted that “Anticipate degree of [wrist and shoulder injuries] improvement slow … no treatment necessary”.xlix

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