Physical description

Brown hard-cover book with a yellow dust-jacket. Title printed in black down the spine. Front cover shows title printed in black at the top, author printed at the bottom. In the middle is a square outlined with a thin black line, inside is a large red cross, in each corner of the cross is a drawing. The top left drawing is of a nurse, top right is an airforce member, bottom left is a navy person, and bottom right are two army men.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'PROPERTY OF VICTORIAN BRANCH RSL' [stamped in red ink on title page]
'940.5472 / MUR' [handwritten in pencil on the inside of the cover]
'Frances Murphy / 12/10/83' [Hand-signed in blue ink on title page]

Summary

'The 1939-45 story of a Special Detachment of Australian Army Nursing Sisters, fondly known as the 'Angels in Grey', and their fate in War and Captivity. This is the 1939-45 World War II story of adventures and trials of a contingent of Australian Army Nurses during service duties in various battle zones, and ranks with other absorbing accounts of courage and suffering coming out of those traumatic years.' - from Trove record.