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Following the outbreak of World War I the Australian Red Cross Society contacted the French Government offering to provide a team of nurses. The French Government accepted this offer. [1] The Red Cross Society subsequently placed an advertisement in the Australian press seeking medically qualified nurses who were able to speak French. [2]
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 Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) comprised more than 3,000 nurses during the war, over 2,200 of whom served outside Australia. [11] Initially the AANS had no military ranks, and the organisation, and the AIF, were unclear about how the AANS might fit in with the AIF. [ 2 ]
Grace Margaret Wilson CBE, RRC (25 June 1879 – 12 January 1957) was a high-ranked nurse in the Australian Army during World War I and the first years of World War II. Wilson was born in Brisbane, and completed her initial training as a nurse in 1908.
Elizabeth Pearl Corkhill, MM (11 March 1887 – 4 December 1985) was an Australian military nurse of the First World War.Trained as a nurse in Sydney, Corkhill enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 4 June 1915.
Pages in category "World War I nurses" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. ... Bluebirds (Australian nurses) Mary Borden;
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]
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 ...