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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 ...
The ship carried many injured service personnel and 65 nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service from the 2/13th Australian General Hospital, as well as civilian men, women and children. [1] The ship was bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank. [1] Two nurses were killed in the bombing; the rest were scattered among the rescue boats to wash up ...
On 8 February the Japanese invasion of Singapore began. In the harbour Empire Star had loaded equipment and stores and over 2,000 people. [3] These people were British and Australian military and 133 army nurses, including Anderson. The nurses were members of the Australian Army Nursing Service from two Australian Army Medical Corps hospitals. [3]
Australia had declared war on Japan and on 19 February 1942 the Bombing of Darwin took place. It was the largest attack ever on Australia. [3] [4] White was later to remark that her nurses worked without a break for 36 hours as they dealt with the resulting casualties. [1] She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant colonel. [5]
In 1943 AHS Centaur was sunk by a Japanese submarine. It was a hospital ship and over 260 lives were lost including eleven nurses. Australia was outraged and Hughes-Jones established the Centaur War Nurses' Memorial Trust and she became its honorary secretary. [4] One of the nurses killed had been a deputy matron to Hughes-Jones. [5]
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.
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]
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.