Physical description

Royal blue hardcover book with white printed title on the spine. The front cover has a rectangle template covering most of the cover, inside which is an image of a nurse with aplane on the runaway behind her. The title is printed across the top of the image in blue text. The author's name is printed in white at the bottom of the cover, below the rectangle image.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'RETURNED & SERVICES NURSES' / CLUB AND R.S.L. SUB-BRANCH / 4 COLLINS ST, MELBOURNE 3000' [Stamped in black ink on the inside back and front covers and on the contents page]
'B135' [Handwritten in pencil on the first page]
'Presented / To / The Returned and Services Nurses' Club / Of Victoria / by / The Ex Royal Australian Air Force Nursing / Service Association / Members.' [Handwritten in black ink on the first page]
' '95' [Handwritten in pencil in tiny writing next to the previous inscription on the first page]
'For Returned & Services / Nurses Club of Victoria / with my Best Wishes for / the 15th August, 1995.' [Handwritten in blue ink on the title page]
'Gay Halstead' [Hand-signed in black ink beneath the previous inscription on the title page]

Summary

A history of the Royal australian Air Force Nursing Service from 1940 unitil 1990. This volume includes chapters on: the history; Medical units, Hospitals and RAAF establishments; Service overseas, World War II; Service overseas, 1946-70; Special duties and resuce missions and RAAFNS personnel.