The article tells how playwright, John Misto, won first prize and $20,000 in the Australia Remembers National Play Competition and proceeded to donated his winnings to the help fund a nurses memorial in Canberra. John's play, The Shoehorn Sonata, tells the story of an army nurse in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. John decided to donated his winnings after finding out, during his research for the play, that nurses did not have a war memorial. He stated that it was mindboggling how brave the nurses were in the conditions and that he didn't want them and their work to continue to be unknown. Nurses have cared for the sick and wounded in every conflict in which Australia has committed troops, from the Boer war to present day. Ex-service nursing organisations and the Royal College of Nursing, Australia convened a committee to plan a memorial. The committee want to unveil a national memorial at the centenary of the raising of the first military nursing service celebrations in 1999. The memorial will cost about $1.5 million and be funded by nurses, nursing organisations and donations and depict the various environments where nurses served. A photocopied article from a newsletter with three columns of text and a black and white photo of a man in front of a group of older women, all smilingww2, wwll, janice mccarthy, royal australian army nursing corps association, nurses' national memorial committee, australian army nursing service, national capital planning authority, anzac parade, dorothy angell, coralie gerrard, barbara orchard, joyce edwards, elizabeth percival, defence force nursing, rcna

Information provided to student nurses at the Alfred Hospital in the 1960's, providing information about various Australian nursing organizations and their historInsight into nursing organizations in Australia in the 1960'sBlack print on off-white paper. Holes at top left where staples have been removedroyal australian nursing federation, royal victorian college of nursing, the victorian nursing council, the college of nursing australia, national florence nightingale committee of australia, national nursing education division, florence nightingale centenary fund, the centaur war nurses memorial trust, the nurses' memorial centre, the clive steele memorial library

Honorary Colonel of Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) Jan McCarthy at the opening of the National Memorial to Service Nurses in Canberra, on 2 October 1999. Jan was on the Memorial Committee and said the Ode during the unveiling ceremony.Colour photograph of an older woman in military uniform speaking at a podium.'CG56 / E15' [black ink, written on photographer's sticker, reverse, lower left]nurses in warfare, f35071

Honorary Colonel of Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) Jan McCarthy with another former RAANC officer at the opening of the National Memorial to Service Nurses in Canberra, on 2 October 1999. Jan was on the Memorial Committee and said the Ode during the unveiling ceremony.Colour photograph of an older woman in military uniform next to a woman in civies with military medalsnurses in warfare, f35071