01 | Myths Of War — The white feather women and their unwelcome gifts

Did young women really hand out white feathers to young men who didn’t enlist in the services during the First World War? It sounds like a myth, but there are lost limbs and lost lives to attest that the white feathers were real. A relative of a prominent Australian historian joined up when he received a white feather and returned from the front with only one leg.

Written and presented by Dr Mark Dapin.