Alfred Hospital Nurses League - Nursing Archive
Book - Illustrated book, Ruth Rae 1957, Scarlet Poppies: the army experience of Australian nurses during the First World War, 2015
Scarlet Poppies analyses the impact the military paradigm had upon the challenges faced by the 2,468 civilian trained nurses who joine the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). The complex relationship between the male dominated military model and the female dominated Nightingale system of nursing training by the First World War nurses is examined in detail.
Illustrated book with white front and back covers and red spine. The front cover has a red, black and white photograph of a nurse: Matron Adelaide (Maud) Kellett. Title and author's name are printed in red below this photo. Abbreviated title and author's name printed in white on the spine. Back cover has abbreviated title printed in red and a summary of the book printed in black.non-fictionScarlet Poppies analyses the impact the military paradigm had upon the challenges faced by the 2,468 civilian trained nurses who joine the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). The complex relationship between the male dominated military model and the female dominated Nightingale system of nursing training by the First World War nurses is examined in detail.world war 1914-1918, military nursing-australia, nurses, australia army-nurses
