Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a light green cover with title, author's name, publisher's name and logo embossed in gilt on the spine. Dust jacket has a photograph of a woman (Elizabeth Burchill) and baby as background to the front, with title and author's name printed in white. Spine and back of dust jacket are olive green in colour with title, author's name, publisher's name and logo printed in white on the spine.non-fictionElizabeth Burchill offers a personal account of her experiences working as a nurse in Papua New Guinea during the 1960's. The book provides insights into the medical challenges, cultural differences and daily life of nurses serving a population with unique health needs and beliefs, including encounters with traditional practices and the establishment of medical facilities in remote areas.elizabeth burchill 1904-2003, nursing-papua new guinea, missions, medical-papua new-guinea

Aspirations, School news, Are you 92-97-102cm and lethargic?, Parent Australia, On powerlessness, Victoria is procrastinating!, Children - community responsibility, Nursing Mothers Association, Community - Papua New Guinea style. This and that, From the council Chamber.Newsletter, 19 p., illus. and textgreenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills, apollo parkways progress association, apollo parkways

Paperback book, photos of Alfred Hospital on front and back cover, numerous photos within.non-fictionBiographies and photos of Alfred Hospital staff. Also includes history of specialty units, e.g. orthopaedics and psychiatry. Connections with Caulfield General Medical Centre, and the Alfred's involvement in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. Details the study of the development of the hospital's crest and motto.alfred hospital, ahnl, caulfield hospital, nurses, doctors, vietnam war, papua new guinea

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a yellow cover with title and author's name printed in white on front and spine. Dust jacket has a pale-yellow background, title and author's name printed in brown on front and spine. The front of the dustjacket also has a black and white photograph of the author (Alice Bowman) (seated) and Joyce McGahan (standing) they are wearing Sisters uniforms; a building of the Namanalu Hospital, Rabaul is behind them (1939). On the back cover is another black and white photograph: Rabaul panorama, and a summary of the book in brown print. non-fictionA true story of a civilian nurse from the Government Hospital in Rabaul, who was held prisoner in New Britain (six months) and Japan (3 years) following the Japanese attack of Rabaul in 1942world war 1939-1945, prisoners of war-papua new guinea, prisoners of war-japan, nurses

The news story is about the recollections of Miss Jean Hardham, as she attended the a reunion of war nurses at ANZAC House, Melbourne. Former Williamstown Hospital matron and Army nurse, Jean said that although the hardships and horrors of the battlefields in the Middle East are almost as vivid today as when they actually happened forty-four years ago, she would go through the experience again if she lived her life over. Jean had never wanted to do anything other than nurse, so she left Australia in 1940 as a member of the Ambulance Sea Transport Unit of a ship carrying 15,000 soldiers to the battlefields of Palestine and Egypt. 1941 saw her headed to Asia, fleeing the Japanese during the fall of Singapore. After the war, Jean worked at various Victoria hospitals and tutured at the Darley Army training camp. Her nursing career ended at the Williamstown Hospital, where she was matron until her retirement in 1971. A newspaper clipping with a large title along the top, a large column of text on the left hand side and a large black and white photo of a seated older woman with a photo album.'Western Independent _ Sunshine - 24th April 1989' [blue ink, along top of paper]world war 2, wwii, ww2, world war ii, army nurse, middle east, papua new guinea, greece, syria, gaza ridge, israel, italian, german

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