170,000 Australian troops survived WW1 with wounds or illness. The Australian Department of Repatriation was formed in 1917 and engaged 600 doctors to treat the totally incapacitated war neurosis cases, mental health cases, and the orthopaedic, tubercular and rheumatic cases in hospitals across the country.

This film was made to publicise the Department’s many rehabilitation schemes. It shows bed-ridden but cheerful men engaged in handicraft, music and other activities to assist their recovery, including a healthy degree of flirting with the nurses.