Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, Vetaffairs, ‘Nurses Legend enshrined in glass’ (Vetaffairs), 199912

Historical information

Article is related to the dedication of the Australian Service Nurses National Memorial in October 1999. Twenty attendees are presented with headshot photographs, identifying information and a brief quote about their service. This includes down the centre of the spread is a brief chronology of ‘A century of nursing service’ from May 1899 to 1999.
People interviewed:
- [Janet] Pat[teson] Darling [neé Gunther], Former Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) WWII
- Eve[lyn Edith] Bidstrup [neé Blacker], Former AANS WWII
- Flight Lieutenant Kathleen Pyne, Current (at printing) Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) Rwanda
- Lorna [Margaret (Skeet)] Johnston [neé Whyte], Former AANS
- Shirley Rolfe, Former RAAFNS Korea
- Pam Campbell, Former RAAFNS Korea
- David Werda, Former Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) Somalia
- Wilma [Elizabeth Forster] Young [neé Oram] Former AANS WWII
- Wing Commander Geoff Robinson, Royal Australian Air Force Gulf War
- Lieutenant Commander Allan Barratt, Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (RANNS) Gulf War
- Major Nick Massotti, RAANC Gulf War
- Florence [Elizabeth] Syer [neé Trotter] AANS WWII
- Margaret Mills, RAANC Korea
- Major Anne Blundell, RAANC Cambodia
- Brigadier Perditta [Marjorie] McCarthy, Former RANNC WWII
- Barbara McKewon, Former RAAFNS Malayan Emergency & Vietnam
- Judith Robson, Former RAAFNS Vietnam
- Edith [Dorothy Kate] Eadie [neé Butler], Former AANS WWII
- Lieutenant Colonel Beverly Wright, RAANC Rwanda
- Captain Judith Spencer, RAANC Rwanda

Physical description

Centre newspaper spread with twenty colour headshot captioned photographs and a large central box with text as a chronology and blue background. Spread has a red border at the top of the page underneath publication information.

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