Historical information

Gethla Forsyth, Alfred trainee, served with the Australian Army Nursing Serviceduring World War II. After enlisting in July 1941, she was sent to Singapore as part of reinforcements for the 2/13th Australian General Hospital in January 1992. On February 12 1942 she was one of the nurses evacuated by the cargo vessel Empire Star. This ship suffered bomb damage, but after emergency repairs in Batavia (Jakarta) arrived in Freemantle on February 23 1942. Prior to discharge in 1946 she also woked at Duntroon Hospital
Gethla also helped establish the Nurses Memorial Centre in St Kilda Rd Melbourne. This article refered to a reunion of AIF nurses (including Gethla Forsyth) with Liutenant general Gordon Bennett after their escape from Singapore in 1942

Significance

Of significance to the AHNL, as Gethla Forsyth was an Alfred Hospital Nursing graduate

Physical description

A4 page with copy of newspaper clipping - photograph of a man with five women all in uniform.

Inscriptions & markings

Previous catalogue number written at top right, and centre right margin [black ink]. Underneath theclipping three of the women have been identified 'Atwood', 'Gethla' snd Marg Anderson'