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2 de mar. de 2022 · Despite an eight-month national investigation, the identity and motive of the perpetrator who had wielded the hammer remained a mystery. The coroner concluded that Warwick had been murdered, entirely unprovoked, as he dozed under the Queensland sky. I knew that couldn’t be the whole story.
12 de abr. de 2022 · Two books on historical gay hate crimes – the murder of George Duncan in Adelaide, 1972, and army officer Warwick Meale in Townsville, 1942 – aim to create positive change by revealing past ...
serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered. 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.
22 de feb. de 2022 · 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.
8 de jun. de 2023 · Jonathan Butler's debut book The Boy in the Dress was nominated for The Age Book of the Year in 2022. It shares his archival research journey trying to uncover the truth about what happened to his ancestor Warwick Meale, a World War Two serviceman found murdered in Townsville 80 years ago.
On the night of 15 August, 1944, Australian soldier Signalman Warwick Sidney Meale, was bashed so viciously with a blacksmith’s hammer he never regained consciousness. Warwick served in New Guinea but his death happened far from the front line, under a bridge in Townsville. Jonathan Butler heard about the murder from his mother in his teens.
3 de mar. de 2022 · In The Boy in the Dress, Jonathan Butler investigates a tragic unsolved murder in wartime Australia that echoes through the ages. On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, a young serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered.
