Journal entry on page twenty and twenty-one, details Gippsland Nurses' Service in WW1 including Mary Freetag who changed her name from Freitag to Freetag to avoid comment on the Germanic origin of her name. The Article includes a photograph of Mary in her War Service Nursing Uniform in 1917. It states that Mary had to resign her appointment in 1919 "on account of marriage". mary freitag, mary freetag, world war 1 nurses, gippsland great war nurses, dorothy morrison, st vincent's hospital nurse training.

Portraits of Mary Freitag in her World War 1 Nursing Service Uniform, one photograph is signed "Fondest love" and the second photograph is stamped ........Shepherd, Bombay, most likely the professional photographer. Mary had to change her surname on her certificate to Freetag to exclude the inferred Germanic association.world war 1 nurses, war service uniform, mary freitag, mary freetag