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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.
While the nurses did not form part of the military, the Department of Defence funded their passage to Europe. The Australian Jockey Club initially volunteered to pay the first six months of the Bluebirds' salaries at the same rate as those of military nurses, but may have subsequently funded the nurses' salaries for the duration of the war. [1]
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 ...
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.
[29] 29 Australian nurses die in WWI. General Military Hospital, Heliopolis. 1914 – Alice Gordon Elliott and Sister Janet Radcliffe are the first nurses to sail abroad to assist in World War One. [30] 1914 – Australian nurses in England join Australian Voluntary Hospital in northern France.
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 ...
A group portrait of the sisters at the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital in 1918. The day following the action, 24 August, Corkhill was posted to the 1st Australian General Hospital, and went on leave in the United Kingdom. She was retained for service at the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Harefield, London on 27 August 1918. [3]
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. [2] [4]