Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch
Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, [Regional News], Nursing memories, 24 April 1990
... ...Robin Funstan...WWII WW2 Sister Crick Memorial Cross Mt Macedon Geyers Newsagency Brook St Village Green Sunbury Junior Fire Brigade Woodend Anslow Street High Street Kyneton Band Garry Anderson John Parker Harry Western Gisborne Hamilton St Brigadier Dean Robin Funstan Lancefield Main St Monageeta Trials and Proving Wing Adrian Sheriff Braemar 'Regional News Tues 24 Apr 1990' [blue ink, along top] A newspaper clipping of a large black and white photo above the title and four columns of text. ...
Anzac Day will commemorate not only the soldiers who gave their life for thei country but a changed attitude to life. This is the view of Ivy Clyne, 91, Sunbury.
At forty Ivy was too old to serve overseas when World War Two broke out, so she as appointed by the Department of Defence to the Heidelberg Military Hospital. There she organised training for the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and orderlies.
Soldiers were shipped back to Australia from the Somme, North Africa and Italy as soon as they were fit enough to travel and the brand new 400 bed hospital had a constant turnover of patients.
Ivy was also sent to Bendigo to set up a 1000 bed army hospital for Americans who had suffered injury or malaria on their way to Guadalcanal.
She was also sent to Broadmeadows Camp Hospital to set up a similar recuperative hospital. A newspaper clipping of a large black and white photo above the title and four columns of text. The photo is of an older woman standing next to a display mannequin and in front of a wall display.'Regional News Tues 24 Apr 1990' [blue ink, along top]wwii, ww2, sister crick, memorial cross, mt macedon, geyers newsagency, brook st, village green, sunbury junior fire brigade, woodend, anslow street, high street, kyneton band, garry anderson, john parker, harry western, gisborne, hamilton st, brigadier dean, robin funstan, lancefield, main st, monageeta trials and proving wing, adrian sheriff, braemar