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The Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) was an Australian Army Reserve unit which provided a pool of trained civilian nurses who had volunteered for military service during wartime. The AANS was formed in 1902 by amalgamating the nursing services of the colonial-era militaries, and formed part of the Australian Army Medical Corps .
29 Australian nurses died from disease or injuries; 25 of these died on active service, and 4 died in Australia from injuries or illness sustained during their service. [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 ...
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]
She arrived back in Australia during July 1914, and became the matron of Brisbane Hospital. [1] [2] Wilson in her office at a hospital at Abbassia in Egypt during May 1916. Following the outbreak of World War I, Wilson joined the Army Nursing Service Reserve in October 1914 and became the principal matron of the 1st Military District. [1]
The most senior Australian woman in military service in World War I was Maud McCarthy, the British Expeditionary Force Matron-in-Chief for France and Flanders. McCarthy was born in Paddington, Sydney, and was raised and educated in Australia, and she studied nursing at the University of Sydney.
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]
The First World War began in 1914 and in 1915 Kelly joined the Australian Army Nursing Service as a staff nurse. Her mother was then living in Mount Dandenong.She left for Egypt and worked with the 1st Australian General Hospital during the Gallipoli campaign.
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 ...