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Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branchNewspaper - Newspaper clipping, The Standard, One more mission, Saturday, June 21, 1997
... ...Service Nurses monument...Article about the brother of WWII nurse Mona Wilton attempting to have service nurses recognised at the Australian War Memorial through some sort of monument to their service. ...Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch ANZAC House Level 3 4 Collins Street Melbourne Article about the brother of WWII nurse Mona Wilton attempting to have service nurses recognised at the Australian War Memorial through some sort of monument to their service. ...Article about the brother of WWII nurse Mona Wilton attempting to have service nurses recognised at the Australian War Memorial through some sort of monument to their service. Article also contains biographical information about Mona Wilton and other Vyner Brooke nurses.Full page article with three black and white photographs and five columns of text'From Mary Gantry[?]' [Handwritten in pencil at the top of the page]tom wilton, mona wilton, vyner brooke, wilma oram, vivien bullwinkel, australian war memorial, service nurses monument -
Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branchBook - Hardcover book, Garrie Hutchinson, 'Remember Them': a guide to Victoria's wartime heritage, 2009
... Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch ANZAC House Level 3 4 Collins Street Melbourne Soldiers monuments War memorials Victoria War and peacekeeping wartime heritage 'Behind each of the thousands of war memorials in Victoria is a story of courage and sacrifice, of devotion to duty, and of a family's terrible loss. This detailed guidebook brings to life some of the stories of Victoria's soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses, providing a unique insight into our wartime heritage, from colonial times to the present day.' [From inside dust jacket] 'RETURNED & SERVICES ...'Behind each of the thousands of war memorials in Victoria is a story of courage and sacrifice, of devotion to duty, and of a family's terrible loss. This detailed guidebook brings to life some of the stories of Victoria's soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses, providing a unique insight into our wartime heritage, from colonial times to the present day.' [From inside dust jacket]Red hardcover book with a dust jacket. The dust jacket has a red spine with the title in black writing and the sub title in gold writing. The front cover shows a close up image of a bronze statue of a soldier carrying another soldier on his back and looking very solemn At the bottom of the cover reads 'A guide to Victoria's wartime heritage' in gold, and 'Remember them' printed in cream text.non-fiction'Behind each of the thousands of war memorials in Victoria is a story of courage and sacrifice, of devotion to duty, and of a family's terrible loss. This detailed guidebook brings to life some of the stories of Victoria's soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses, providing a unique insight into our wartime heritage, from colonial times to the present day.' [From inside dust jacket]soldiers monuments, war memorials, victoria, war and peacekeeping, wartime heritage -
Beechworth RSL Sub-BranchMedals WWI Court Mounted
... monument as determined by each nation, with the exception of the nations of the far east who issued the medal but with a different design. Eligibility for this award consisted of having been mobilized in any of the fighting services and having served in any of the theatres of operations, or at sea, between midnight 4th/5th August, 1914, and midnight, 11th/12th November, 1918. Women who served in any of the various organizations in a theatre of operations were eligible, such as nurses...monument as determined by each nation, with the exception of the nations of the far east who issued the medal but with a different design. Eligibility for this award consisted of having been mobilized in any of the fighting services and having served in any of the theatres of operations, or at sea, between midnight 4th/5th August, 1914, and midnight, 11th/12th November, 1918. Women who served in any of the various organizations in a theatre of operations were eligible, such as nurses ...The Victory Medal (also called the Inter Allied Victory Medal) is a bronze medal that was awarded to all who received the 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star and, with certain exceptions, to those who received the British War Medal. It was never awarded alone. These three medals were sometimes irreverently referred to as Pip, Squeak and Wilfred. The medal of which the basic design and ribbon was adopted by Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Union of South Africa and the USA in accordance with the decision as taken at the lnter-Allied Peace Conference at Versailles but in a particular form of a historic Greek monument as determined by each nation, with the exception of the nations of the far east who issued the medal but with a different design. Eligibility for this award consisted of having been mobilized in any of the fighting services and having served in any of the theatres of operations, or at sea, between midnight 4th/5th August, 1914, and midnight, 11th/12th November, 1918. Women who served in any of the various organizations in a theatre of operations were eligible, such as nurses, members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service, Woman Army Auxiliary Corps, Women’s Royal Air Force, canteen staff and members of the many charitable services.Original medals issued to the Hoffman family post WWI and donated to the Beechworth RSL Sub Branch by his sister Miss Anna Hoffman with the Hoffman Family collection.British War Medal 1914 -1920 with ribbon and Victory Medal with ribbon court mounted and the recipients name inscribed on the rim. On the reverse side is red felt and the mounter's label629 PTE. F. HOFFMAN . 33 - BN . A . I . F . is inscribed on the rim of both medals.medal, medal wwi, victory medal, the war medal
