Diary kept by Sister Elsie Gibson from November 1914 to September 1915 when she sailed from Hobart to Egypt and her experiences on the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Gascon. -AWMBlue hardcover book with title printed across the front in small gold text.'To The Returned Nurses Club / Nicholas Hamilton / September 19th 1999' [Handwritten in blue ink on the first page]sister elsie gibson, elsie gibson, h.m.h.s. gascon, hospital ship wwi, diaries, wwi, ww1, world war one

Both letters to “Lena” are from "Alfred ROGERS" believed to be Regt No 2390, born Bendigo, enlisted in 4th reinforcements 38th Bn AIF age 18 years. Embarked for England 20.10.1916, embark for France 6.5.1918, WIA 9.8.1918 Concussion, hospital aboard ship 19.2.1919 “Albuminuria” discharged from the AIF 11.8.1919. (.2) On the rear a date 22.2.1916 has been written in darker pen colour. Alf Rogers had not enlisted at this point. The contents of the letter relate to German POW’s in England so the date would be more likely to be 1917. Refer Cat No 3996P re “Lena” and other cards.(.1) Post card photo, B & W, soldier standing at ease with studio back ground, on rear handwritten in black and blue pen addressed to “Dear Lena”. (.2) Post card, silk, colour with vase of flowers, bows and flag. Across the top in yellow sewn in “For you alone”. Letter on the rear is in black pen and addressed to “Dear Lena”.38th battalion, wwi, alfred rogers

Writing chest or toiletry case with several compartments. In main compartment were several items from the Volum family: cigarettes case, business cards case, a boar tusk, 4 seeds. a piece of coral. Behind the board where the name Gordon Volum is written and where was possibly a mirror were hidden two documents: a pink card from a hospital about Andrew Volum, and a small leaflet about WWI ships.Label on top lid:volum collection, portable furniture, geelong, peterhead, scotland, captain, seafaring, whaling, gordon volum, andrew volum, wwi, first world war, great war, navy ships, hmat orsova

Paperback book with a light olive cover and an image of a poppy field under the title and the author's name.fictionIn 1915 sisters Naomi and Sally Durance answer a call for nurses to join the war effort. They are escaping the family dairy farm in the Macleay Valley, and they carry a secret with them. Soon they are in Egypt, where they are put to work on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes as it patrols the Dardanelles. On Archimedes they witness Mars in all his ferocity, as he pummels soldiers in the massive, brutal metal brawl that is Gallipoli. Yet the sisters and their newfound nursing friends, with whom they will witness undreamt-of carnage and take care of unspeakably blighted men, find themselves courageous in the face of the horror. Naomi, Sally and their gang are then sent to northern Europe, where Naomi nurses in the visionary Australian Voluntary Hospital run by the committed and eccentric Lady Tarlton, and Sally in a casualty clearing station next to the Western Front. Here, again, they must face the inhumanity of war in its many terrible guises - where trench warfare and gas abound. But it is here, too, that the sisters meet the remarkable men with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives. Inspired by journals of Australian nursing sisters who gave their all to the Great War effort and the men they nursed, The Daughters Of Mars is vast in scope yet extraordinarily intimate. This is Keneally at the height of his storytelling powers; a stunning tour de force to join the best of First World War literature, and one that casts a fresh light on the challenges faced by the Australian men and women who voluntarily risked their lives for peace. Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Everywhere they are confronted by new outrages - gas, shellshock and broken men. Naomi encounters the wonderful, eccentric Lady Tarlton, who is founding a voluntary hospital near Boulogne; Sally serves in a casualty clearing station close to the front. They meet the men with whom they would wish to spend the rest of their lives. An extraordinary portrait of two ordinary young women[From Trove]wwi, ww1, world war one, world war 1, nurses, miles franklin award nominations, military nursing -- fiction, 1914-1918 -- australia -- fiction, historical fiction

Blue hardcover book with a yellow dustjacket. The title is printed down the spine in blue text. The front cover shows an image of an oil painting of nurses tending the beds of the wounded, it is surrounded by a dark red border. Above the image the title is printed in blue, with 1914-1918 printed in smaller red print.non-fiction'Draws on many first-hand and previously unpublished accounts of the work of Australian nurses in the Great War to tell an extraordinary story of courage and companionship under conditions of great hardship - in the mud of Flanders, among the cholera cases in India, on the hospital ships during the Gallipoli campaign, on Afghanistan border, in Vladivostok, in mosquito infested Macedonia, and in the Sinai Desert. - from inside dustjacket. Contents note: pt. 1. The Middle East -- 1. Enlistment -- 2. Egypt -- 3. Hospital ships -- 4. Lemnos -- 5. Malta -- 6. Palestine -- 7. Mesopotamia -- 8. India -- 9. Serbia and Salonika -- pt. 2. The Western Front -- 10. The Australian base hospitals in France -- 11. The casualty clearing stations -- 12. Transport in France -- 13. Home hospitals in England -- 14. Repatriation -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Roll of Nurses. - from Trove record.history of nursing, world war one 1914-1918, ww1, wwi, nurses australia, great war nurses

A biographical collection of papers and photographs relating to Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurse, Ruby Vivian Carmichael, who served during the First World War. It includes a copy of her army record, a short story that was published in the "Leongatha Star" newspaper and copies of ten photographs.A collection of black and white typed and photocopied documents and pages of photographs.army nurses, australian imperial forces, world war 1914-1918, australia. australian army. australian imperial force (1914-1921), australian nurses, wwi, ww1, ships - hospital, hospitals - camp, ww1 living conditions, wedding ceremonies, solonika, karoola hospital ship

Blue hardcover book with a yellow dustjacket. The title is printed down the spine in blue text. The front cover shows an image of an oil painting of nurses tending the beds of the wounded, it is surrounded by a dark red border. Above the image the title is printed in blue, with 1914-1918 printed in smaller red print.non-fiction'Draws on many first-hand and previously unpublished accounts of the work of Australian nurses in the Great War to tell an extraordinary story of courage and companionship under conditions of great hardship - in the mud of Flanders, among the cholera cases in India, on the hospital ships during the Gallipoli campaign, on Afghanistan border, in Vladivostok, in mosquito infested Macedonia, and in the Sinai Desert. - from inside dustjacket. Contents note: pt. 1. The Middle East -- 1. Enlistment -- 2. Egypt -- 3. Hospital ships -- 4. Lemnos -- 5. Malta -- 6. Palestine -- 7. Mesopotamia -- 8. India -- 9. Serbia and Salonika -- pt. 2. The Western Front -- 10. The Australian base hospitals in France -- 11. The casualty clearing stations -- 12. Transport in France -- 13. Home hospitals in England -- 14. Repatriation -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Roll of Nurses. - from Trove record.history of nursing, world war one 1914-1918, ww1, wwi, nurses australia, great war nurses

This stencil was used as a ship identifier stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Plassy was a troopship in the Boer and then the Indian Garrison rotation run. During WWI the Plassy was converted into a Grand Fleet hospital ship serving in European waters. All wool bales stamped with PLASSY would be transported on the Plassy ship.Wool bale export stencil - PLASSYPLASSYwool transportation, wool export, wool sales

Accounts of the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1914, with particular detail regarding the first three Australian General Hospitals and the Hospital ships 'Kyarra' and 'Gascon'. The document includes early personal accounts of the formation of the Service and details of the early days and leading into World War One.Photocopy of a typed document. There are fifteen pages of typed information and four pages of photographs. The entire document is printed in black ink.australian military nurses, australian army nursing service, world war 1914-1918, wwi, ww1, hospital ship kyarra, 1st australian general hospital, 2nd australian general hospital, 3rd australian general hospital, hospital ship gascon, cairo

Gloss hard cover, no book jacket with illustration of ships under attacknon-fictionTracing the history of hospital ships from the Spanish Armada to the Gulf War, but with special and detailed reference to the Australian hospital ships in World War II: Manunda, Wanganella, Centaur and Oranje. [Trove]hospital ships, medical care, world war i, wwi, wwii, world war 2

Gloss hard cover, no book jacket with illustration of ships under attacknon-fictionTracing the history of hospital ships from the Spanish Armada to the Gulf War, but with special and detailed reference to the Australian hospital ships in World War II: Manunda, Wanganella, Centaur and Oranje. [Trove]hospital ships, medical care, world war i, wwi, wwii

Paperback book with purple blue cover & spine, red and white text one cover & spine, black logo and text on spine and colour image of a woman in army nurses uniform on cover. Top and bottom corners of front cover curling.non-fiction'This outstanding book tells the stories of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for with the Anzacs are renowns and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring. Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs. She defied censorship and kept a very frank diary, reproduced here for the first time. In 1914, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist, was caught in the besieged city of Antwerp and mad a hair-raising escape from a German firing squad. Brisbane's Grace Wilson, ordered to establish an emergency hospital on drought-stricken Lemnos Island, arrived there to find suffering Anzacs but no drinking water, tents or medical supplies. Grace and her nurses saved the lives of thousands who had been wounded at Lone Pine and The Nek. In France, Florence James-Wallace, Anne Donnell and Elsie Tranter nursed near the front line in the Casualty Clearing Stations, treating soldiers with hideous wounds or blinded by mustard gas. In 1918 they had to deal with an epidemic of Spanish flu, but their heroism was quickly forgotten. Two of these women received such meagre pensions, they died destitute. Publication of this book with its numerous illustrations has been facilitated by a generous donation from Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, keen that these stories become known to Australians of all ages.' [Summary from back cover] Has endnotes with full biographical details and an index.australian nurses, world war one, wwi, ww1, louise mack [creed], claire trestrail [swan], muriel wakeford, hilda theresa samsing, grace margaret wilson, anne donnell, florence james-wallace, elsie may tranter

Gloss hard cover, no book jacket with illustration of ships under attack. The title is printed in bold red print across the top and down the spine.non-fictionTracing the history of hospital ships from the Spanish Armada to the Gulf War, but with special and detailed reference to the Australian hospital ships in World War II: Manunda, Wanganella, Centaur and Oranje. [Trove]hospital ships, medical care, world war i, wwi, wwii, world war 2

A book review of 'Guns and Brooches: Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War' by Jan Bassett. More volunteer army nurses have come from rural Victoria than elsewhere in Australia. One hospital matron who volunteered for the front suring the Boer War wrote. "No one who has experience the satisfaction that arises from such work of this stature...ever cares to go back to the dill routine of earing a living in any othe the other spheres at present open to women." Not much seems to have changed by the Vietnam War. In an inquiry, in 1968, into why army nursing was failing to attract enough recruits, it was revealed that young nurses 'were disappointed at the lack of dramatic nursing opportunities.' Though a dense, turgid tome, the book educates on such things as the misery endured by many army nurses on return to Australia after the two World Wars, who tried to exist on their tiny gratuities only for many to fall into destitution and starvation. The nurses who joined up because they admired 'order and efficiency' soon found that the army is anything but. In WWI and WWII medical personnel were shipped to war zones without accompanying equipment.A newspaper clipping and a photocopy of it, consisting of title, five columns of text and a black and white photo (two photos on the photocopy). The photo on both the clipping and the photocopy shows a large group of women in nurse's uniforms in a boat. The photo at the bottom of the photocopy shows a large group of women in nurse's uniforms and a man in an army uniform organised for a group photo outside.'L.7.' [crossed out, blue ink, top left, also on the photo copy] 'Page 7.' [blue ink, top left, also on the photocopy] 'WWII' [only on the photocopy, half way down, right side] 'NC9' [reverse side, blue ink, top left]ww2, world war two, ww1, world war one, korea, oxford university press, victoria, 2/9th, morotai, 2/5th agh, australian general hospital, 102nd agh, tamworth, new south wales, edith cavell trust fund, british army nursing corps, batavia, rabaul, jakarta, indonesia, papua n, papua new guinea