Anzac 'walking wounded'

Wounded Gallipoli soldier on crutches, the figure reminiscent of ancient Greek statues such as Kouros, the sculptures that were young nude Greek youths. The statues embodied the idea of youth and the Archaic Greek ideal of moral and physical beauty and nobility. Except this work has this ideal of youth and physical beauty headless and on crutches. As a child Nolan saw young men who had returned from the First World War with missing limbs and terrible physical and mental injuries. To see a young man complete physically and mentally during his childhood was probably quite rare for Nolan.