Opinion article questioning why Australian war nurses do not receive state funerals like soldiers who served do. Author of article and historian Melanie Oppenheimerhas has written a non-fiction book about a Australia WWI nurse titled 'Oceans of Love, Narrelle'. Photograph with article is of Vivian Bullwinkel.Newspaper clipping with a black and white photograph on the right of a smiling woman in military nurses uniform. Article has seven columns of text.war nurses, funerals, state funerals, melanie oppenheimer, vivian bullwinkel, vivian statham

Card taped inside pages: In loving memory of Christina Craig 03-03-1918 - 11-07-2013Teal green hard cover with white print & loose jacket illustrated with black & white & colour photographs. White print/text black & white & colour photos throughout, 270 pages.books, military history

Hard, green glossy cover with white print on front cover & spine. Dust jacket illustrated inside & outside, with black & white and coloured photographs of women in various uniforms. 270 illustrated pages, black & white & coloured photographs & posters.Hand written on flyleaf: Donated by above Sticker with black printing: Una & Max Trahair 26 Keck Street Flora Hill 3550books, military, women

Booknon-fiction100 Years of Australian Red Cross 1914-2014

Sepia toned cover with two images on the front (a portrait of a woman, and three nursing sisters) and an image of a woman in profile on the back. The title is printed across the front and spine in white print, sub-title and author in brown.non-fictionAt the outbreak of World War I, Narrelle Hobbes was the matron of the small and remote Brewarrina hospital in north-western NSW. Keen to be an active participant in the war, Narrelle, aged 36, decided to travel to London in March 1915 in order to join Queen Alexandra's Imperial Medical Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR). By May she was in Malta nursing the sick and wounded from Gallipoli. She later nursed in Sicily, India and Mesopotamia (now modern day Iran/Iraq). The Mesopotamia campaign, fought between the British and the Turks, is one of the largely forgotten theatres of the war. Narrelle spent 10 months in Basra and later Amara, on the Tigris River, nursing casualties and patients with appalling diseases such as enteric fever, dysentery, typhoid and cholera. After falling sick, she then spent six months recuperating in the foothills of the Himalayas at the remote hill station of Binsar in Uttar Pradesh. Narrelle is based on an extraordinary collection of letters written home to her family ('Dearest Peoples' and signed 'oceans of love') in Australia, letters that are a witty and evocative reminder of an extraordinary period in Australian history from the perspective of an Australian girl from the bush. [Trove]ww1, wwi, first world war, world war 1914-1918, narrelle hobbes, sister florence narrelle jessie hobbes, queen alexandra's imperial military nuring service, australian nurses

White spine with title printed in red and author in black. Front cover is a black and white photographic image of a group of smiling female volunteers, title and author details are overlaid in red print.non-fictionAustralians have always volunteered to help in emergencies, especially when the nation has been at war. During the Boer War, World War I and World War II, volunteers from all walks of life raised money, assisted with nursing and rehabilitation, and provided food and clothing. Servicemen and women were helped both at home and in the field. The main wartime volunteer organisations were the Australian Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Funds, the Salvation Army, and the YMCA with the YWCA. Their story and the stories of countless wartime civilian volunteers is told for the first time, revealing important aspects of Australian social and political life. For example, it was the pressure of the volunteers that forced governments to act on essential matters like repatriation benefits for returning soldiers and for the welfare of their dependents - from Trove record.volunteers, voluntarism, australian volunteers, wwi, wwii, ww1, ww2, first world war, second world war, war work

The Power Of Humanity, 100 years of Australian Red Cross 1914-2014, hard cover with dust jacket, 327 pages published by Harper Collins contains black and white & colour photographs.Melanie Oppenheimerbooks, technical, red cross