The boy in the dress : investigating a tragic unsolved murder in wartime Australia that echoes through the ages
Butler, Jonathan2022
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On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, young serviceman Warwick Meale is found beaten to death under a bridge. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the leads that were there all along. The Boy in the Dress exhumes secrets of life on the home front during World War II, where tensions between soldiers boiled over, new expressions of sexuality flourished and the threat of invasion catapulted the status quo into disarray. The truth of this family legend, and this little-known chapter in Australian military history, is more complex and engrossing than anyone could have imagined.
Main title:
Author:
Butler, Jonathan, author
Imprint:
South Melbourne Boon Wurrung Country, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xii, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
97819226269439781922626943
Dewey class:
364.1523364.152
Language:
English
Subject:
Meale, Warwick -- Death and burialCross-dressers -- Australia -- BiographyGay men -- Australia -- BiographyGay men -- Crimes againstMurder -- Queensland -- Townsville -- Case studiesAustralia -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryTownsville (Qld.) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryTrue crime stories
BRN:
503431
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 364.152 MEA | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 364.152 MEA | Available |