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PART ONE 1907-1939
One Beginnings | 3 |
Two Friday's child | 11 |
Three The philosopher's stone | 34 |
Four Men of Ormond | 46 |
Five Dunlop of Benalla | 67 |
Six 'Nulla vestigia retrorsum' | 89 |
Seven Journey to the Promised Land | 109 |
Eight Mr E. E. Dunlop MS, FRCS | 123 |
PART TWO 1940-1942
Nine War by any means | 139 |
Ten Unholy Holy Land | 149 |
Eleven Scarlet Major at the Base | 175 |
Twelve Across the wine-dark seas | 199 |
Thirteen Grey ships waiting | 236 |
Fourteen 'Sorry, gone to Tobruk' | 248 |
Fifteen The back garden of Allah | 267 |
PART THREE 1942-1945
Sixteen Fastest ship of the convoy | 291 |
Seventeen Into the bag | 301 |
Eighteen Singing and games forbidden | 324 |
Nineteen Via Dolorosa | 364 |
Twenty Valley of the shadow | 396 |
Twenty-one Stables for the sick | 439 |
Twenty-two We Kempeis do but do our duty | 454 |
Twenty-three 'Ancient civilisations' | 472 |
Twenty-four 'Oh incredible day!' | 505 |
Twenty-five The return of Ulysses | 526 |
PART FOUR 1945-1967
Twenty-six Reclaiming the lost years | 541 |
Twenty-seven The solace of surgery | 557 |
Twenty-eight Surgeon ambassador | 570 |
PART FIVE 1967-1993
Twenty-nine 'The influence of Weary' | 593 |
Thirty The life-long mission | 603 |
Thirty-one Almonds to those who have no teeth | 623 |
Acknowledgements| |
Abbreviations | |
Endnotes | |
Select bibliography | |
Index | |

MAPS & LINE DRAWINGS
Palestine camps | 153 |
Hospitals, Middle East | 153 |
Greece | 205 |
Netherlands East Indies: West Java | 304 |
Landsopvoedingsgesticht Camp | 327 |
Konyu River Camp | 384 |
Central Thailand: Konyu-Hintok section | 399