Historical information

Article provides a brief history of nursing in warfare from Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War (1854-1856) and the formation of nursing services in Australia from the Boer War through to the nursing officers on peacekeeping missions in the 1990’s. Point of the article is 100 years of military nurses and the planned national memorial for military nurses.

Physical description

Centre newspaper spread with two colour photographs and three black and white photographs. Article has ten columns of text. Spread has a blue and red border at the top and bottom of the page, blue inside, red outside. One colour photograph is of an elderly woman in a wheelchair looking down, she is wearing a khaki coloured hat, green coat with medals on the left side of her chest and a plaid skirt. The other colour photograph is of six older women seated or standing and a man in a suit standing between them. The black and white photograph at the top centre of the article is of eight young women in nurses uniform leaning on the railing of a ship. The black and white photograph at the top on the right is of a woman in uniform upright and four men lying, strapped in beds and bunks. The third black and white photograph at the bottom of the page on the left is of three middle aged women in nursing uniforms with medals pinned on the left of their capes.