Illustrated book with red cover. The front cover has an outline of Queensland on which is printed an illustration of three women in the uniforms of the three military nursing services within a blue circle. Also on the front cover is the title printed in orange and authors name printed in black. Title in orange, author's surname and publishers mark in black are also printed on the spine. On the back cover in black print on a yellow rectangle the AANS pledge of service. Above this is an illustration of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge, and below is the badge of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.non-fictionA history of the development and practice of military nursing by Queensland nurses from the Boer War to Vietnam. Includes casualty list and list of decorations awarded to Queensland nurses.royal australian army nursing corps-history, military nursing-queensland-history, nurses-queensland-history, medicine-military-history-australia

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Celebrating the launch of a book about the experiences of nurses at war as well as tracing the history of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps from 1902-[1988]. Book was launched by the author at the Returned Nurse Club in ANZAC House, Victoria.Newspaper clipping with publication title and date at the top and a photograph above three columns of text. Black and white photograph is of three older women and one older man holding copies of a book in their hands.nurses, army nurses, royal australian army nursing corps, raanc, rupert goodman, our war nurses, wilma young [oram], betty jeffrey, margaret o'bryan

Celebrating the launch of a book about the experiences of nurses at war as well as tracing the history of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps from 1902-[1988]. Book was launched by the author at the Returned Nurse Club in ANZAC House, Victoria.Newspaper clipping with publication title and date at the top and a photograph above three columns of text. Black and white photograph is of three older women and one older man holding copies of a book in their hands.nurses, army nurses, royal australian army nursing corps, raanc, rupert goodman, our war nurses, wilma young [oram], betty jeffrey, margaret o'bryan

At a historic gathering of past and present Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) nurses were in attendance at the dedication and unveiling of the RAANC's badged door at the Solider's Chapel at Kapooka, the first dedication of a corps door there. Col Coralie Gerrard, DNS-A spoke of the history of nurses in the Army. The first nurses served with troops in 1898 with the Australian Nursing Service (ANS) being formed 1902. Nurses have continued to serve in all wars where Australians have served. Lt-Col Ian Mawson, Deputy Comdt 1RTB, gave the opening address. Guests included nurses who had served in Australia and overseas in WW2 as well as those who served in Japan, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Singapore and New Guinea between 1946 and 1980 and in recent UN deployments. It was a wonderful occasion for past and present nurses to meet and talk about their Army nursing experiences. A photocopied news paper clipping of an article with a large black and white photo of a group of women standing in front of a building above two columns of text and a smaller black a white photo of an army colonel and a chaplainww2, wwii, melbourne, canberra, sydney, angus mcdonald, carmelo sciberras, gary kenney, wilma young, wilma jones [oram young]