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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 ...
At the time war broke out, there were 129 women doctors registered to practice in Australia, and over 1000 women were registered to practice in Britain. [3] However, the primary roles for Australian women during the war was through nursing. [11] No other official military roles were available to Australian women when World War I broke out.
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 ...
The role of Australian women in World War I was focused mainly on nursing services, [50] with 2,139 Australian nurses serving during World War I. Their contributions were more important than initially expected, resulting in more respect for women in medical professions.
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]
The First World War began in 1914 and in 1915 Kelly joined the Australian Army Nursing Service as a staff nurse. Her mother was then living in Mount Dandenong.She left for Egypt and worked with the 1st Australian General Hospital during the Gallipoli campaign.
M. Rose Macaulay; Beatrice Mary MacDonald; Katherine Maud MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald (nurse) Florence MacDowell; Hester Maclean; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)
The book won the New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize in 2013 and the WK Hancock Prize by the Australian Historical Association in 2014. McNaughton was one of the six Australians whose war experiences were presented in The War That Changed Us , a four-part television documentary series about Australia's involvement in the First ...