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The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) restricted women's enlistment to participation in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), accepting only single women with professional nursing degrees, as well as a group of trained masseuses, 14 ward assistants and one bacteriologist. Initially the union of the AANS into the AIF was unclear and ...
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.
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]
Deacon was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a nurse with the Australian Army Nursing Service on 29 November 1914. [4] She was among the first group of Australian nurses to leave for service on the Kyarra. [1] [2] Her first military experience was in Egypt where she remained for 12 months, serving at Mena Camp during the Gallipoli ...
Marion Leane Walls (née Smith; 1891 – 24 January 1957) was an Australian-Canadian nurse. She is the only Aboriginal Australian woman known to have served in the First World War . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Smith was of English and Darug descent; her grandmother, Lucy Leane, belonged to the Cabrogal people.
Australian women who participated in World War I. Pages in category "Australian women of World War I" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total.