Anzacs Were Unafraid of Suffering
(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. ' “Australian and- New Zealand soldiers in the Great War were excellent examples of the perceptual type to the Nth degree,” writes Dr. Hugh Crichton-Miller, one of Britain’s leading experts on mental hygiene and psychiatry, in an article on wartime neurosis in the British Medical Journal. He add 3 that they were not appalled by the prospects of pain and suffering, and were extremely valuable men in an army. On the other hand the conceptual type, illustrated by Latin races, tended to collapse more quickly owing to their capacity for imagining what has not yet happened. The great lesson to be learned was the careful pre-selection of thpse sent to the danger zone.
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Northern Advocate, 28 January 1939, Page 9
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