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‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans?

  • Written by Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, War and Oral History, Deakin University

“I have seen enough of the horrors of war, and want peace. War has made me a socialist and a pacifist,” announced Gallipoli veteran and Victoria Cross winner, Hugo Throssell, on Peace Day in 1919.

Throssell was shot in the neck on Hill 60 at Gallipoli in 1915 and nearly died from surgical complications. He returned to the frontlines in...

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