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Most of these nurses were serving in the Australian Army Nursing Service; however, a small number were serving with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, one of a number of British Army nursing services during World War I. [2] Other Australian women made their own way to Europe and joined the British Red Cross, private hospitals ...
Pages in category "Female nurses in World War I" The following 177 pages are in this category, out of 177 total. ... Bluebirds (Australian nurses) Mary Borden;
Queensland nurses leaving on the SS Omrah for World War I, circa 1914. Australian women in World War I, were involved in militaries, and auxiliary organisations of the Allied forces abroad, and in administration, fundraising, campaigning, and other war time efforts on home front in Australia. They also played a role in the anti-war movement ...
The "Bluebirds" were a group of twenty Australian civilian nurses and a masseuse who volunteered for service in France during World War I. Recruited through the Australian Red Cross Society, the group's nickname referred to the colours of their specially-designed uniforms. After arriving in France the nurses were split between different ...
ANZAC Girls is an Australian television drama series that first screened on ABC1 on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Alexandria, Lemnos, and the Western Front during the First World War. [1]
Pages in category "World War I nurses" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. ... Bluebirds (Australian nurses) Mary Borden;
Alicia Mary Chipper, ARRC, MM (née Kelly; 16 September 1874 – 16 April 1942) was an Irish-born Australian nurse. She was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross and the Military Medal for her bravery during the First World War.
She trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where she met and became friends with Isabella Jobson. In late 1910, the two women took over the running of Windarra Private Hospital in Toorak. They left the hospital, and Australia, together in December 1915 and travelled to England to serve in the First World War. [1]