Article - Gippsland Mercury Article "Wartime Nurse Mary Freitag of Stratford, Gippsland"

Historical information

The article states that Mary Freitag has her Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association Certificate and has been accepted as a staff sister in the AIF for service, along with 40 other sisters. They will be stationed in the port of Bombay. Mary is a "most popular and efficient nurse well known in the Sale district...she has true womanly qualities and is generous and kind". "She will bring those qualities to bear, together with a noble zeal in ministering the sick and wounded soldiers who have fought for us in Mesopotamia".

Physical description

Photocopy of newspaper article.

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