Physical description

Blue hardcover book with a yellow dustjacket. The title is printed down the spine in blue text. The front cover shows an image of an oil painting of nurses tending the beds of the wounded, it is surrounded by a dark red border. Above the image the title is printed in blue, with 1914-1918 printed in smaller red print.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'B003a' [Handwritten in pencil on the top of the first page]
'RETURNED & SERVICES NURSES' / CLUB OF VIC SUB BRANCH R.S.L.' [Stamped in purple ink on the first page]
'$35' [Handwritten in pencil at the top of the second page]
'To the Returned Nurses Library / From Mary Gibson (nee Everard) / SFX13822 / 25.7.06' [Handwritten in blue ink on the second page]

Summary

'Draws on many first-hand and previously unpublished accounts of the work of Australian nurses in the Great War to tell an extraordinary story of courage and companionship under conditions of great hardship - in the mud of Flanders, among the cholera cases in India, on the hospital ships during the Gallipoli campaign, on Afghanistan border, in Vladivostok, in mosquito infested Macedonia, and in the Sinai Desert. - from inside dustjacket.

Contents note: pt. 1. The Middle East -- 1. Enlistment -- 2. Egypt -- 3. Hospital ships -- 4. Lemnos -- 5. Malta -- 6. Palestine -- 7. Mesopotamia -- 8. India -- 9. Serbia and Salonika -- pt. 2. The Western Front -- 10. The Australian base hospitals in France -- 11. The casualty clearing stations -- 12. Transport in France -- 13. Home hospitals in England -- 14. Repatriation -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Roll of Nurses. - from Trove record.