TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Jonathan
TI  - The boy in the dress: investigating a tragic unsolved murder in wartime Australia that echoes through the ages 
SN  - 9781922626943
U1  - 364.1523 23/eng/20220221
PY  - 2022///
CY  - South Melbourne, VIC
PB  - Affirm Press
KW  - Meale, Warwick
KW  - Transvestites
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Murder
KW  - Queensland
KW  - Townsville
KW  - Case stuidies
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Townsville (Qld.)
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, young serviceman Warwick Meale is found beaten to death under a bridge. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the leads that were there all along. The Boy in the Dress exhumes secrets of life on the home front during World War II, where tensions between soldiers boiled over, new expressions of sexuality flourished and the threat of invasion catapulted the status quo into disarray. The truth of this family legend, and this little-known chapter in Australian military history, is more complex and engrossing than anyone could have imagined
ER  -