Illustrated book. Front cover has a coloured black and white photograph of Kit McNaughton in nurse's uniform seated alongside soldiers. Book title is printed in golden-brown and white ink on the front cover along with the authors name (white ink) Spine and back cover have a golden-brown background. Abbreviated title printed in white and black ink on spine, along with the authors name in white ink. Same coloured photo of Kit McNaughton is printed at top of spine. Publishers mark is printed in white ink on a black background at base of spine. The back cover has a summary of the book along with three black and white photographs: Kit McNaughton and another nurse standing behind two soldiers in hospital beds, the photograph from which the image on the front cover was taken, and a photograph of Kit McNaughton aged 16non-fictionThis book is based upon the previously unpublished diaries of army nurse Kit Mcnaughton, who embarked on the troopship Orsova in 1915, tracing her journey through the war from Egypt (where she nursed Gallipoli veterans), Lemnos Island and then to France and the Somme. Kit finished active service as Australia's first plastic surgery nurse, assisting medical pioneers in this field as they repaired the shattered faces of Australian soldiersworld war 1914-1918, nurses, nursing

non-fictionA personal diary that takes us from the shores of Australia to Gallipoli by way of training in the Middle East, a torpedoed troopship and on to a convalescent hospital in England. Pages of a small pocket diary that hold so much information, recorded each day, regardless of being torpedoed at sea or shelled in the front line and surviving to tell the tale. Also survivors were the four Hazard brothers from Brighton, Victoria, serving their country during World War 1, putting their lives on the line. All returned. Graphic newspaper reports by war correspondent Keith Murdoch, Officers and men support the little diary.world war 1, diary, brighton (vic.), hazard family, hazard brothers, corporal leonard gordon hazard