Document (item) - Gippsland Heritage Journal excerpt of article of Gippsland's Great War Nurses

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Journal entry on page twenty and twenty one details Gippsland Nurses' Service in WW1 including Mary Freetag who changed her name from Freitag to Freetag to avoid comment on the Germanic origin of her name. The Article includes a photograph of Mary in her War Service Nursing Uniform in 1917. It states that Mary had to resign her appointment in 1919 "on account of marriage".

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