Anzac Day commemorations at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park. (2018)
Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller
The Otago University study published in
Health and History analysed welfare claims from Dunedin s Returned Services Association for Second World War veterans suffering from war neurosis and how they were supported in terms of mental health care when returning from war.
Angela Wanhalla, who was a lead author of the study alongside Tiffany Jenks, said until now very little was known about the mental health support given to soldiers on their return home. We know about the physical disabilities but there is a lot of silence around the kinds of trauma that was attached to war service and how families actually ended up being the core support for many of these men who sometimes struggled to articulate what was wrong.
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Pilot Russell Brodie takes the bundled up poppy and star artworks from his Tiger Moth after flying from Rangitata Island to Timaru on Wednesday.
One hundred pupils from Timaru South School received a short history lesson when the Poppy Flight reached Timaru. Pilot Russell Brodie made a delayed landing in his Tiger Moth at Timaru’s Richard Pearse Airport on Wednesday morning, bringing two artworks, one bearing poppies and the other stars, which are being carried around the country as part of a charity relay flight. On arrival Brodie, who had flown from Rangitata Island, explained to the pupils, as well as members of the Returned Services’ Association and public, how the plane had been built in 1942.
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