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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 ...
2014 – TV drama series ANZAC Girls portrays nurses in World War I. 2014 – Thea Hayes' An Outback Nurse describes nursing at Wave Hill, Northern Territory in the 1960s. [70] 2015 – Publication of Ruth Rae's 4-volume History of Australian Nurses in the First World War. [71] 2016 – Murder of remote area nurse Gayle Woodford in APY Lands. [72]
Nurses who joined the Australian Army Nursing Service during peacetime and attended prescribed lectures were the first to be called upon when the First World War broke out in August 1914. These civilian trained nurses, including Creal, were known as 'efficient'. Creal became the principal matron of the 2nd Military District. Creal's role was to ...
Alice Alanna Cashin, RRC & Bar (6 March 1870 – 4 November 1939) was a decorated Australian nurse who served with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War. Early life and education
Lydia Abell, ARRC (13 June 1872 – 21 July 1959) was a civilian and military Australian nurse. [1] She served in the First World War and was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross for bravery during the evacuation of a field hospital that was under enemy bombardment on the Western Front.
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 ...
Dorothy Gwendolen Cawood, MM (9 December 1884 – 16 February 1962) was an Australian civilian and military nurse. She was one of the first three members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) to be awarded the Military Medal in the First World War. [1]
Catherine "Kit" Ryan, RRC (née McNaughton; March 1884 – 14 February 1953) was a decorated Australian nurse who served in the First World War.She kept a detailed diary of her experiences, the basis of which was later published by Janet Butler as Kitty's War (2013).