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Red and white coloured cover, stapled booklet.

non-fiction

'Foreword / The Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-45. / Compiled by VFX 47777 / This small volume represents a brief account of the work done by its members, at home, and abroad.'

australian nurses, world war two, ww2, australia, australian army nursing service, aans

Red and white coloured cover, stapled booklet.

non-fiction

'Foreword / The Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-45. / Compiled by VFX 47777 / This small volume represents a brief account of the work done by its members, at home, and abroad.'

australian nurses, world war two, ww2, australia, australian army nursing service, aans

Soft cover, red and grey, containing a portrait of the author in army nurses' uniform. Australian Army Nursing Service uniform. Back cover, white with a facsimile of the Instrument of Surrender.

non-fiction

A record of nursing service in the second world war, from enlistment to peace.

world war two, ww2, finschhafen, ambulance trains, wwii

Soft cover, red and grey, containing a portrait of the author in army nurses' uniform. Australian Army Nursing Service uniform. Back cover, white with a facsimile of the Instrument of Surrender.

non-fiction

A record of nursing service in the second world war, from enlistment to peace.

world war two, ww2, finschhafen, ambulance trains, wwii

Black bound book with silver writing on spine. Dust jacket has collage of photographs on front, spine is black with white writing on it.

non-fiction

'Mercy trains - Australian Army Ambulance trains during World War II recounts the hitherto untold story of trains provided by Australia's State railway departments to convey the tens of thousands of the armed force's sick and wounded needing transportation across the continent. Conceived as large-scale ambulances to evacuate battle casualties suffered on Australian soil in the event of a landing by enemy forces, their role changed when Australia was spared the trauma of invasion. Instead, the trains becam mobile hospitals: their task to convey invalids from all allied (and enemy) forces to medical centres throughout the nation. One major assignment was to bring south from Queensland casualties evacuated from the battlefields of Papua-New Guinea, whose numbers reached crisis proportions at the close of 1942 and into early 1943. The trains were operated by United States Army personnel for twelve months, one in New South Wales and one in Queensland. Author Jim Harvey spent three years searching through Army (both Australian and U.S.) and railway department files and what he found was a story of demanding military, a penny-pinching government prepared to endanger the lives of train staff rather than permit necessary improvements, some railway operating problems, fires, more than a fair share of floods, a bombing attack, examples of a generosity from caring local communities, a dexicated staff of doctors, nurses, medical orderlies and cooks, supported at all times by sympathetic railwayment of all grades.' [from inside front dust jacked]

australian nurses, world war two, wwii, ww2, papua new guinea, pacific theatre, homefront, australia

Red A4 thin book with black type on front cover and no text on spine or back cover. Has a plastic slip cover. Piece of paper sticky taped to the inside of the front cover.

non-fiction

'A record of the service in South Africa of Military and Civilian Nurses, Laywomen and Civilians' [text on front cover & title page] Contents: Army Nursing Service [UK] Army Nursing Service Reserve [UK] Nurses engaged locally Civil hospital nursing staff Private field hospital nursing staff Natal volunteer medical corps nurses Australian nurses Canadian nurses New Zealand nurses Maidservants to nurses, wardmaids and cooks Civilian support personnel

south african war, boer war, uk nurses, australian nurses, canadian nurses, new zealand nurses

Red A4 thin book with black type on front cover and no text on spine or back cover

non-fiction

'A record of the service in South Africa of Military and Civilian Nurses, Laywomen and Civilians' [text on front cover & title page] Contents: Army Nursing Service [UK] Army Nursing Service Reserve [UK] Nurses engaged locally Civil hospital nursing staff Private field hospital nursing staff Natal volunteer medical corps nurses Australian nurses Canadian nurses New Zealand nurses Maidservants to nurses, wardmaids and cooks Civilian support personnel

south african war, boer war, uk nurses, australian nurses, canadian nurses, new zealand nurses

Article about Sisters F A Tallow & Lord who were the only women aboard the [SS} Ballarat when it was torpedoed in 1917.

Newspaper clipping attached with sticky tape to a piece of paper

'The Sun / THURSDAY APRIL 26 1934'

Photo of Peg and Bess Vickers holding a cake from a reunion of nurses that trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between 1934 and 1940.

Newspaper clipping

"October 1986"

peg vickers, bess vickers, vi marshman, royal melbourne hospital, world war ii, wwii, world war two

Drawing/caricature of a hospital ward with a nurse on her toes and arm in the air like a ballet dancer carrying a tray with the caption: '"She switched after two years of ballet."'

Newspaper clipping of drawing

humour, nurses

Caption: "U.S. TROOPS wounded in the New Guinea campaign on a hospital train / somewhere in Australia. On the train journey the troops were / attended by A.I.F. nurses."

Newspaper clipping of partial headings, photograph and caption

united states troops, new guinea, aif, wwii, world war ii, world war two

Clipping with publication title and date. Second clipping about Jean McCaughey [23rd Victorian Governor's wife] attending a luncheon at ANZAC House given by Returned Nurses' Club as a guest of then president B C Lawson.

Newspaper clippings attached with sticky tape to a piece of paper

jean mccaughey, returned nurses' club, b c lawson

Photograph with caption 'Sisters of the Australian / Army Nursing Service / leaving Melbourne yester- / day for service in a / northern zone. Judging / by their happy smiles / they are pleased at the / prospect.'

Newspaper clipping of a photo with caption

'NC9'

wwii, world war ii, world war two, australian army nursing service

Photograph with caption 'SISTER VERA Tourney, one of the heroines of a / bombing attack on the A.I.F. nurses' voyage home / from Singapore.'

Newspaper clipping of a photo with caption

vera tourney, aif, singapore

Photograph with caption of G[ethla] Forsyth and others speaking to girl [sic] textile mill workers.

Newspaper clipping

gethla forsyth, raaf, army nurse

Photograph with caption of nurses Vera Torney and Margaret Anderson visiting Melbourne

Newspaper clipping

vera torney, margaret anderson, george medal

Article about 75th anniversary of the founding of the Australian Army Nursing Corps and parade of nurses uniforms at the Nurses' Memorial Centre, includes a photo of Lyn Pearton, Annette Treloar and Carol Burgess in uniforms of various eras.

Newspaper clipping

australian army nursing corps., lyn pearton, annette treloar, carol burgess, nurses' memorial centre

Article about, with photograph of Colonel E[thel] J[essie] Bowe being appointed as an Honorary Nursing Sister to the Queen

Newspaper clipping

ethel jessie bowe, royal australian army nursing corps

Article about, with photograph of 'Sister Gethla Forsyth' and areas she nursed during WWII

Newspaper clipping

gethla forsyth, heidelberg military hospital, wwii, world war ii, world war two

Photograph with caption 'Sister Gethla Forsyth, AIF nurse home from Malaya'

Newspaper clipping

malaya, gethla forsyth, aif

Article about the death of Ivy Clyne and parts of her life,

Newspaper clipping

'Telegraph / 28.3.95'

ivy clyne, world war ii, wwii, world war two, army nursing service

Article about Joan Cavell coming to Australia to lay a wreath at the Edith Cavell Memorial [Melbourne]

Newspaper clipping

edith cavell, wwi, world war i, world war one, memorial, anzac day

Parts of articles relating Vivian Bullwinkel receiving an MBE

Newspaper clippings - incomplete - part 01 with words and partial title, part 02 with photo and caption, part 03 with text

'AGE / 1/1/73'

wwii, world war ii, world war two, vivian bullwinkel, banka island

Article about Elizabeth Burchill former nurse turned author and her book 'Australian nurses since Nightingale'

Newspaper clipping

'NC7'

elizabeth burchill, spanish civil war, wwii, world war ii, world war two

Article about searching for oldest surviving World War I nurses

Newspaper clipping

'MAY 27 HERALD'

world war i, wwi, world war one, effie mary fussell, effie garden

Article about searching for oldest surviving World War I soldiers and nurses

Newspaper clipping in two parts, photograph with title underneath

'MAY 13 / TUESDAY 1986 / HERALD'

david lees, agnes moglia, jane mcphee, australian army nursing service, jack cannon, world war i, wwi, world war one

World War I

Book, paperback, sepia photo of Grace Wilson with an umbrella on Lemnos

none

the western front, gallipoli, the marquette (ship) aegean

Hardcover with grey, scarlet picture of three nurses.

non-fiction

Military nursing, Queensland. history

nurses, boer war, world war one, world war two, vietnam