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‘A Homosexual Institution’:
Same-sex Desire in the Army During
World War II
43 Pseudonym John, ‘Cuckoo-Cloud Land’, p. 25.
44 Hadrian, ‘Homosexuality in the Forces’, p. 4.
45 Ibid.
46 O’Donnell, ‘John’s Story’, p. 49.
47 Pseudonym John, ‘Cuckoo-Cloud Land’, p. 25.
48 Ibid., p. 29.
49 Hadrian, ‘Homosexuality in the Forces’, p. 4.
50 Pseudonym John, ‘Cuckoo-Cloud Land ‘, p. 26.
51 Pairman, ‘In Which We Serve’, p. 38.
52 Pseudonym John, ‘Cuckoo-Cloud Land’, p. 30.
53 Hadrian, ‘Homosexuality in the Forces’, p. 4.
54 Pseudonym John, ‘Cuckoo-Cloud Land’, p. 25.
55 Ibid., p. 26.
56 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Len’ [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944.
57 For example NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Quincey’ [name expunged], Statement, 12 February
1944; NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Pete [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944].
58 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Neil [name expunged], Statement, 31 January 1944; NAA,
Homosexual Males, ‘Morrie [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944.
59 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Morrie [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944; NAA,
Homosexual Males, ‘Len’ [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944; NAA, Homosexual
Males, ‘Gerald [name expunged], Statement, 13 January 1944.
60 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Jack [name expunged], Statement, 12 January 1944.
61 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Ron [name expunged], Statement, 7 February 1944; NAA,
Homosexual Males, ‘Quincey [name expunged], Statement, 12 February 1944.
62 Kenneth Harrison, Road to Hiroshima, Rigby, Adelaide, 1983, p. 136.
63 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Pete’ [name expunged], Statement, 25 January 1944.
64 Ray Hartley, ‘Our Hearts were Young and Gay’ in Wotherspoon, Being Different, pp. 36–37.
65 O’Donnell, ‘John’s Story’, p. 49.
66 Hadrian, ‘Homosexuality in the Forces’, p. 4.
67 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Len’ [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944.
68 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Gerald [name expunged], Statement, 13 January 1944.
69 NAA, Homosexual Males, ‘Len’ [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944; NAA,
Homosexual Males, ‘Morrie’ [name expunged], Statement, 27 January 1944.
70 Hetherington, The Diaries of Donald Friend, vol. 2, p. 262, entry for 19 June 1944.
71 Barry, interviewed by Graham Carbery, 19 January 1983, ALGA.
72 Floyd, interviewed by Graham Carbery, 1988, ALGA, p. 7.
73 Anderson, Free Radical, pp. 47–48.
74 Lawson Glassop, The Rats in New Guinea, Horwitz, Sydney, 1963, p. 21.
75 Wotherspoon, City of the Plain, pp. 88–89.
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