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Role: sister bacteriologist
Award: She served in Egypt, Lemnos, England and France, was mentioned twice in despatches, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross (2nd Class)
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Key events: After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Eleanor Williams was invited by Dr Trent Champion de Crespigny to join him on active service with the First Australian Imperial Force.[3] Infectious disease was emerging as a significant issue for the campaign in Turkey and the Middle East, and the army wanted to recruit people with bacteriological and laboratory training to work on the problem. Accordingly, Williams enlisted with the Australian Army Nursing Service on 20 July 1915 and embarked for Egypt a fortnight later on the RMS Orontes. On arrival, Williams was posted to the 3rd Australian General Hospital on the island of Lemnos in Greece. This was one of the hospitals that received patients from the Gallipoli Campaign. Williams' record at the Australian War Memorial states that she enlisted with the rank of Staff Nurse on 20 July 1915, and rose to the rank of Temporary Sister. She served in Egypt, Lemnos, England and France, was mentioned twice in despatches, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross (2nd Class).Although Williams enlisted as a nurse, she worked exclusively in the laboratory as a bacteriologist, the only Australian woman to serve in such a capacity.[5] Working alongside Dr Charles James Martin, Director of the Lister Institute, she performed ground-breaking work on dysentery, and quickly became known as an expert in this field.[6][7][8] She continued to work with Martin throughout the war, on a variety of infectious diseases, including meningitis, streptococci, staphylococci, gas gangrene, and epidemic influenza.[citation needed]

Leaders

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  • Jane Bell (nurse) – Scotland-born Australian nurse and midwife (1873–1959) Done
Role: Principle Matron
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Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Role: matron-in-chief
Award: First of AANS to be awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal. Mentioned in a despatch of General Sir John Maxwell "in connection with services rendered in Egypt". In September 1916 she was awarded the Royal Red Cross "for conspicuous services rendered" and later a Bar "in recognition of her valuable nursing service". On 1 January 1919 King George V appointed Conyers a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. I
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations: Egypt
Key events: one of the original members of the Australian Army Nursing Service which was formed in 1903. enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 11 October 1914. In January 1916 she was appointed Matron-in-chief of the 1st Australian General Hospital.
Role: Principle Matron / matron in chief (after 1920)
Award: mentioned in despatches on three occasions during the year, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross in May. the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Organisation: Army Nursing Service Reserve
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Key events: Following the outbreak of World War I, Wilson joined the Army Nursing Service Reserve in October 1914 and became the principal matron of the 1st Military District.[1] She enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 15 April 1915 and was appointed the 3rd Australian General Hospital's (3rd AGH) principal matron.[2] She and the rest of the 3rd AGH departed Sydney bound for Europe on 15 May 1915.[3] The 3rd AGH arrived in England at the end of June and was originally intended to be deployed to France. Instead, it was decided to send the hospital to Lemnos island in the Mediterranean to treat casualties of the Gallipoli Campaign. The 3rd AGH departed England in early July and arrived at Lemnos on 8 August. The ship carrying the nurses stopped at Alexandria during this voyage, where Wilson learned that one of her brothers had been killed at Quinn's Post in Gallipoli.[4] Conditions at Lemnos were difficult, and there were initially few facilities to care for the many soldiers who were being evacuated there from Gallipoli. Wilson led efforts to improve the situation, earning praise from both her subordinates and superior officers. In January 1916 the 3rd AGH moved to Abbassia in Egypt. Wilson was mentioned in despatches on three occasions during the year, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross in May.[2] Wilson was also offered the post of Matron in Chief at AIF Headquarters in either late 1915 or early 1916, but turned it down as she wished to remain with the 3rd AGH.[6] In October 1916 the 3rd AGH was transferred to Brighton in England, and remained there until April 1917 when it moved to Abbeville in France. Wilson was temporarily appointed the Matron in Chief at the AIF Headquarters, London in September 1917 while Evelyn Conyers was on leave in Australia. She remained in this position until April the next year, and then rejoined the 3rd AGH.[2][7] Following the war, Wilson was mentioned in despatches again in December 1918, and was appointed to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 1 January 1919. The 3rd AGH was disbanded in May 1919, and Wilson was posted to England to serve in the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital. She returned to Australia in January 1920 and formally ceased to be a member of the AIF in April of that year.[2]
Role: Matron
Award:
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 1 Australian General Hospital hospital ship Kanowna to No. 8 Australian General Hospital. hospital ship Berrima, No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, to Fremantle - hospital ship Ayrshire. hospital ship Orontes, arriving in August 1918 to No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital. Returned to Australia aboard the hospital ship Arawa
Locations: Alexandria, Egypt,
Key events: On 21 July 1915 she applied for a position with the Australian Army Nursing Service. 1915 No. 1 Australian General Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. November - nursing wounded men from the Gallipoli campaign on the hospital ship Kanowna to No. 8 Australian General Hospital in Fremantle. December 1916, then left for England aboard hospital ship Berrima. She accompanied wounded soldiers from No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, to Fremantle by hospital ship Ayrshire, arriving July 1917. She returned to England from Sydney by hospital ship Orontes, arriving in August 1918 to No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, where she was promoted to matron. She returned to Australia aboard the hospital ship Arawa and was discharged from service in December 1918.
Role: Matron. Principle Matron of the 2nd Military District.
Award: Royal Red Cross (First class)
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 14 Australian General Hospital. hospital ship Karoola.
Locations: Abbassia, Egypt,
Key events: Creal worked in Parkes for many years and was appointed as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve. She enlisted for war service on 14 August 1916 and arrived in Egypt on 23 September.[4] She served as a nurse for three years during the First World War
Role: Matron
Award: In 1916 class Royal Red Cross. In 1918 she was mentioned in despatches and awarded a first class Royal Red Cross. In 1919 made a CBE in the King's Birthday Honours.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations: Egypt, France, Italy
Key events: When the First World War started she had been a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service for ten years. She was posted as a sister to Egypt arriving at the end of 1914. In 1917 she was posted from France to Italy as a temporary matron.
Role: Matron
Award: In the 1917 New Year Honours, Finlay was awarded the Royal Red Cross "in recognition of valuable service with the Armies in the Field"
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: the Egyptian Army Hospital, No. 1 Australian General Hospital, Ras-el-Tin convalescent home in Alexandria, No. 1 Australian General Hospital. Rouen No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall,
Locations: Egypt, France, England
Key events: Finlay had joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1904.
Role: Matron
Award: She was awarded a Royal Red Cross in 1916
Organisation: Army Nursing Service Reserve
Units: No. 2 Australian General Hospital,
Locations: Egypt and in France
Key events: She was the first lady superintendent of the Army Nursing Service Reserve, attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, from 1899, and served in this role during the Second Boer War. She and Sister Julia Bligh Johnston operated Ermelo Private Hospital at Newtown, Sydney, for several years. Gould served in the First World War as matron of No. 2 Australian General Hospital, both in Egypt and in France.
Role: Matron
Award: She was Mentioned in Despatches on 13 October 1916 by General Archibald Murray.[17] In December 1916 she was awarded the Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, so was entitled to the post-nominal letters RRC. The award was personally presented by King George V.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Locations: Egypt, UK
Key events: In 1904 Graham enlisted with the Australian Army Nursing Service. Graham enlisted for active service with the Australian Imperial Force in 1914. She sailed for Malta where she joined the hospital ship Guildford Castle. Graham reported for duty at No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Mena House, Heliopolis, on 27 April 1915,[17] where Ellen Gould may have been matron, then on 4 May 1915 at No. 1 Australian General Hospital in Heliopolis, where she served 1915–16, also at the Red Cross hospital at Ghezireh and the military infectious diseases hospital at Choubra. She also worked on hospital transport ships carrying wounded from Gallipoli. Graham returned to Melbourne on duty aboard hospital transport ship Euripides, leaving Suez on 22 January 1917. She reenlisted on 2 April 1917[17] and returned to London, reporting for duty at No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford, Kent, which specialised in war neurosis.[23] Her last posting was No. 2 Australian General Hospital in England, before in January 1918 reporting to the medical offices at AIF Headquarters, London.[9] She was a few months in the Glen Almond Convalescent Home for Sisters,[17] then returned to Australia, embarking on the steamer Marathon (aka Transport A74) 15 April 1918, admitted to No. 7 Australian General Hospital on 28 June 1918,[17] and was discharged as an invalid on 28 August 1918.
Role: Matron
Award: In June 1917 she received the Royal Red Cross, 1st class, for her work at Harefield.[1] In 1919 she was appointed C.B.E.[1] and in 1926 she was awarded the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Française en bronze.[4]
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service,
Units: Harefield Park House in Middlesex, and 2nd Australian General Hospital
Locations: Harefield Park House in Middlesex, and Wimereux, France
Key events: Prepped and managed the growth of the hospital from 150 to 1000 beds. In December 1916 Gray was transferred to the 2nd Australian General Hospital at Wimereux, France, where she remained until 1919. Gray's wartime diaries span the years 1915 to 1919 are held at the Australian War Memorial.
Role: Matron
Award: Kellett was awarded the Royal Red Cross (first class) on 23 February 1917. She was mentioned in despatches in 1916 and 1919 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 3 June 1919. In 1937, she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the third Australian nurse to be so honoured.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations: Egypt, France, UK
Key events: She embarked on the Euripides on 19 October 1914 for Egypt, where she spent ten months at No. 2 Australian General Hospital in Cairo and on board Gascon during the evacuation from Gallipoli. She next served as matron of the Choubrah Military Infectious Hospital in Egypt for six months from February 1916. She was transferred to England to open No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Southall in August 1916, working with amputees. In July 1917, she was posted to Hardelot in France where she ran the 2400-bed 25th British General Hospital until its closure in March 1919. Back in England, Kellett interviewed 128 AANS nurses for the medical history war records of the Australian Imperial Force.
Role: matron
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Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Locations: Suez, Salonika
Key events: By 1917 joined the Australian Army Nursing Service. Australian Imperial Force briefly in Suez before she joined 300 of her peers on Salonika. became the matron-in-chief of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service WWII.
Role:Matron
Award: Royal Red Cross (1st class) 1914-15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Key events: She was the only Tasmanian nurse to die on active service during World War I. In 1906 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service. In November 1914, at the start of World War I, Miles Walker was one of the first 25 nurses who travelled to Egypt with the Australian Imperial Force. She was acting matron at the Mena House hospital in Cairo when the first casualties of Gallipoli arrived. She also served on a British hospital ship, Gascon, and as temporary matron at the Australian Stationary Hospital at Ismailia in Egypt. In October 1916, she began a stint as matron at the Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Dartford in England. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st class) in January 1917 for her efforts. In July 1917, she travelled to Dieppe to be matron at the British Stationary Hospital there. Later that year, she was matron at Abbeville. She returned to England in October 1918, where she worked at the military hospital in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. She died there, part of the 1918 flu pandemic, on 30 October 1918, aged 39 years.[4] Her remains were buried with full military honours in the St. John the Evangelist churchyard in Sutton Veny.[5]
Role: Matron
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Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Mena House, 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital on Lemnos 25th British General Hospital
Locations: Egypt Abbeville in France Lemnos Ismailia,
Key events: On arrival in Egypt, she nursed with the No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Mena House, working under matron Nellie Gould. She volunteered for transfer to the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital on Lemnos in September 1915 where she nursed the soldiers wounded at Gallipoli. She was promoted to head sister in March 1916, before sailing to England in October, where she served briefly in Dartford and Brighton. From November 1916 she served at Ismailia, next posted in April 1917 to Abbeville in France with the 3rd Australian General Hospital. October 1917 saw her working under matron Adelaide Kellett at the 25th British General Hospital, a 2400-bed facility fully staffed by Australian nurses. Morrice left France in December 1918 and returned to Australia on HMAT Demosthenes, working as matron. She received her discharge on 9 July 1919.
Role: Major / Matron in charge
Award: Richardson was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1917 for her services. She was the first matron in the Australian Army Nursing Service to become a major
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: 1st Australian General Hospital.
Locations:
Key events: On 3 November 1914, Richardson enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Force. She served in Egypt in the 1st Australian General Hospital. In 1915, she became the matron in charge of the Kyarra, which was the first hospital ship to return to Australia with wounded soldiers. In August 1915, Richardson was appointed as the matron-in-charge of Reinforcements to Army Sisters for England and served in Harefield Hospital, then known as the No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital.[1][2] Richardson was recalled to Australia in 1916, where she was made matron-in-chief on the staff of the director general of medical services at Army Headquarters, Melbourne – the first person to hold this position.[1] She held this position until 10 March 1920, during which time she supervised the administration of the Australian Army Nursing Service, hospital ships, sea transport, and nearly 3,000 nurses who had enlisted for service.[1][4] She also organised the demobilisation of the A.A.N.S.
Role: head nurse / temporary matron
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Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No.1 Australian General Hospital in Cairo. No.60 British General Hospital in Salonika. No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford
Locations:
Key events: No.1 Australian General Hospital in Cairo and then seconded to the Middle East Staff in July 1915. She also served on the British hospital ship Guildford Castle. Sorensen was promoted to sister in December 1915 and was sent to the British Stationary Hospital in Poona, India, in October 1916. She tended to sick soldiers in Poona until January 1917 when she returned to Egypt. In February 1917, Sorensen was forced to return to Australia due to poor health. In August that year, she returned to duty at No.60 British General Hospital in Salonika. Sorensen was made head nurse and then temporary matron in August 1918. The hospital, which was entirely under canvas,[3] contained 2,000 patients with malaria, dysentery, and blackwater fever. Sorensen was sent to No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford in February 1919 and took a massage course at Guy's Hospital. She finally returned to Australia in January 1920 and her A.I.F. appointment ended in March that year. Sorensen's experiences during the First World War were reported to have given her knowledge which she would not have otherwise received for her profession.[4] Her service was praised by Major (Dr) Lee Abbott who said "Quite a number of cases she absolutely dragged out of the grave by her assiduous care and resource."
Role: principal matron
Award: White, who was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, was mentioned in despatches, and was honoured with the Greek Medal of Military Merit and the Serbian Order of St. Sava, was recognized for her exceptional work at Salonica. awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st Class) for her exceptional contributions.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve
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Key events: n October 1914, White set sail with the initial group of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and reached Egypt on 4 December. She was assigned to a British military hospital and also served on a hospital ship. Additionally, she briefly held the position of matron at No. 1 Australian General Hospital. In early 1916, due to a reorganization of the Australian Army Medical Corps and the AANS, she was appointed as the principal matron of the AIF in England. After Matron-in-Chief Evelyn Conyers arrived in London, White returned to Australia in August, having been awarded the Royal Red Cross (1st Class) for her exceptional contributions. She concluded her service with the AIF on 7 August, upon returning to Australia on 28 June 1919. Throughout her nursing career, she remained actively involved in the affairs of returned nurses and dedicated twenty-five years as president of the Salonica Sisters' Group.

Sisters

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Role: Sister
Award: Associate of the Royal Red Cross,[9] and had also been mentioned in despatches. MM
Organisation:
Units: 1st Australian General Hospital (1st AGH) in Egypt. Suez established as a clearing station for casualties from the Gallipoli Campaign. 10th Stationary Hospital. 2nd Casualty Clearing Station (2nd CCS) near Trois Arbres.
Locations: Heliopolis, near Cairo, Suez. France. Rouen. St Omer, Trois Arbres
Key events: In November 1914, Sister Ross-King was posted overseas. Arriving at 2nd CCS on 17 July, Ross-King had only been at the hospital for five days when it was bombed on the night of 22 July 1917. Four men were killed in the bombing and 15 others injured. Ross-King, who was just finishing a shift, returned to the wards and continued to care for the patients in the ward despite the fact that the canvas tents had collapsed on top of her and the casualties.[6] Her actions during the raid and the immediate aftermath resulted in Ross-King being awarded the Military Medal (MM), one of only seven AANS nurses to receive the MM during the war.[4] Of the other six Military Medal awards, three were awarded to her colleagues at 2nd CCS for conduct during the same raid; these were Sisters Dorothy Cawood and Clare Deacon, and Staff Nurse Mary Derrer.[7] All four awards were published in the London Gazette on 25 September 1917,[8] and presentation of the medals was made by General Sir William Birdwood, General Officer Commanding I ANZAC Corps.
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Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
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Locations: Lemnos during the landing at Gallipoli, and she also served in Egypt and France.
Key events: She returned to Australia in early 1917, suffering from pulmonary fibrosis
Role: Nurse
Award: Bairnsdale Shire honour roll, Memorial at at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No.1 Australian General Hospital
Locations: Egypt on the Kyarra. She was stationed at Heliopolis, Cairo
Key events: Bicknell sustained a scratch on her hand while nursing wounded soldiers, and developed pyaemia, a type of infection. She was ill for about six days, and died on 25 June 1915.
  • Dorothy Cawood – Australian civilian and WWI military nurse (1884 – 1962)  Done
Role: Nurse. Sister.
Award: Mentioned in dispatches. Awarded the Military Medal "for bravery in the Field"
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS)
Units:No. 2 Australian General Hospital
Locations: Egypt, Italy, England
Key events: Cawood volunteered as a staff nurse for AANS on 14 November 1914. Two weeks embarked on hospital ship HMAT A.55 Kyarra as a member of the No. 2 Australian General Hospital, bound for Egypt. She was promoted to nursing sister in 1915 while serving on a hospital ship and transports. She remained on service in Italy after the declaration of peace until early 1919, when she was transferred to England.
  • Pearl Corkhill – Australian military nurse of the First World War (1887 – 1985)
Role: Nurse. Sister.
Award: Military Medal
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: 1st Australian General Hospital, 2nd British General Hospital 3rd Australian General Hospital, Casualty Clearing Station
Locations: Egypt, France Abberville, Rouen Le Havre.
Key events: Corkhill enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 4 June 1915. After serving in France at the 1st and 3rd Australian General Hospitals, Corkhill was assigned to the 38th British Casualty Clearing Station near Abbeville on 21 August 1918. On 23 August, while the camp was being heavily bombed by enemy aircraft, Corkhill remained calm and continued to tend to her patients, despite the danger. For her bravery, she was awarded the Military Medal, one of only seven Australian nurses to be so decorated in the First World War. 38th British Casualty Station on 23 August. The Casualty Station suffered a heavy air raid by German forces, with the sterilisation room being destroyed and the camp being hit by numerous bombs.[7] Despite the heavy attack, Corkhill, who was attending to the wounded at the time, remained calm and continued to aid the patients.[1] For her actions, she was recommended for and later awarded the Military Medal
Role: Nurse. Sister.
Award: Along with the Military Medal, Deacon also received the British War Medal, the 1914–15 Star, and the Victory Medal.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: Mena Camp
Locations: Egypt, England, France Armentières
Key events: Enlisted 29 November 1914. Among the first group of Australian nurses to leave for service on the Kyarra. in Egypt where she remained for 12 months, serving at Mena Camp during the Gallipoli campaign. In 1915, Deacon was promoted to Sister and relocated to England where she served in hospitals in Wandsworth, Denmark Hill and Dartford. She then travelled to France in March 1916 and was temporarily stationed at the Australian Casualty Clearing Station near Armentières. During a bombing of the 2nd Australian casualty clearing station in Messines on the night of 22 July 1917.[6] It was reported that during the enemy air raid, despite being off-duty at the time, Deacon refused to leave and continued to treat patients.[7] She protected the soldiers in part by evacuating them from the burning buildings and using the enamel hospital bowls to cover their heads.
  • Dot Edis – Twentieth century Australian nurse
Role: Nurse. Sister.
Award:
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: auxiliary hospital in Egypt, 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, as well as both American and British hospitals
Locations:
Key events: Went on to serve in WW2 and win Florence nightingale medal and MBE
Role: Nurse
Award: For her services during the war she received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Organisation: AANS AIF
Units:
Locations: Army hospital in Sydney. Cairo, Abbassia
Key events: McMaugh enlisted 26 August 1916. She served first at the Army hospital in Sydney, and the following year was posted to Cairo with the AIF. She left Australia 1917 on the TSS Kanowna to serve at the 14th Australian General Hospital in Abbassia.
Role: Nurse
Award: James-Wallace was mentioned in despatches. she received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal in recognition of her war service. As part of the Soldier Settlement program offered by the Commonwealth to returning veterans, James-Wallace was allotted a land portion.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: Unit 3, Australian General Hospital (3AGH) on 26 April 1915
Locations: Greece, Egypt, UK, France
Key events: May 1915, expecting to serve in France, After disembarking in London, they were dispatched to Mudros, on the Greek Island of Lemnos, fifty miles from Gallipoli, Turkey. Arriving in early August, in advance of their hospital supply ship they were compelled to treat casualties the day after their arrival. They had no clean water or medical supplies with which to begin. The nurses were stationed in Abbassia, Egypt for 8 months before being sent to Brighton, England and then Abbeville, France where they served until August 1918. She and the other nurses worked in Casualty Clearing Stations near Bapaume and Villers-Bretonneux, which saw heavy shelling and some of the worst casualties. They joined the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Harefield, England in late August 1918.
Role: Sister
Award: In 1917 the London Gazette recorded that she had been awarded the Military Medal.[3] Only seven Australian nurses received the Military Medal during the First World War, the award being for "conspicuous gallantry under fire". Kelly was invested with her Military Medal at Buckingham Palace on 16 October 1917.[1] She also received the Associate Royal Red Cross.[4]
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations: Egypt, France
Key events: Egypt and worked with the 1st Australian General Hospital during the Gallipoli campaign. She returned to Australia twice in 1915 on board the SS Euripides as she cared for the severely wounded soldiers who were being returned to Australia.[1] In the following April she and the 1st Australian General Hospital were sent to France. In April 1917 she was with the 29th Casualty Clearing Station when she became a sister and in July she was posted to the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station. During an attack in France at Rouen Kelly refused to leave her patients. She covered the heads of the patients with bedpans to give them a feeling of security and she held the hand of another patient.
Role: Sister
Award: In 1919 Kenny was honourably discharged and awarded a pension
Organisation: ?? AANS
Units:
Locations:
Key events: Not eligible to serve with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) - not a qualified nurse. letter of recommendation from Dr McDonnell. Assigned as a Nurse on the crew of the HMAT Suevic, a "dark ship", so named because unlike hospital ships they were not painted white as protection under the Hague Convention. These transport ships were used to carry war goods and soldiers to the front; returning with wounded soldiers. Kenny's war service records state her date of appointment to the No. 1 Section, Special Transport Service, as the 28 July 1916. Kenny made 8 round trips (plus one round the world via the Panama Canal). In 1917 she earned the title "Sister",[34] which in the AANS is the equivalent of a First Lieutenant. Kenny used that title for the rest of her life and was criticised by some for doing so, but she was officially promoted to the rank during her wartime service. she was assigned temporarily on two occasions to the Australian Auxiliary Hospitals at Harefield Park and Southall while awaiting reassignment to her next voyage
Role: Nurse
Award: She was mentioned twice in despatches, was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class and the French Military Health Service honour medal.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service.
Units:
Locations:
Key events: she was sent first to Egypt, later travelling onto Britain and then to France.
Role: Nurse (diarist)
Award:
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service.
Units: No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Mena, 12 miles east of Cairo at the foot of the pyramids, under the direction of Sister Nellie Gould. Moving to No. 1 Australian General Hospital at the Palace Hotel Heliopolis in February 1915, under Matron Jane Bell,
Locations: Egypt
Key events: Kitchin joined AANS in 1907. Enlisting as a nursing sister with the Australian Imperial Force on 26 September 1914, and was posted to No. 1 Australian General Hospital.[8] She sailed with five other nurses: Mary Finlay, Evelyn Conyers, Jane Lempriere, Hilda Ridderwold Samsing, and Jessie McHardy White. Sailed with the 8th Battalion aboard HMAT Benalla on 19 October 1914, arriving in Egypt on 4 December. No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Mena. Kitchin and Hilda Samsing 7 June 1915 medical crew on HS Gascon, After the evacuation from Gallipoli in December 1915, Kitchin returned to nursing in Cairo at Heliopolis. Kitchin was transferred to Boulogne, France, in April 1916 to No. 2 Australian General Hospital, and later to Rouen and casualty clearing stations. then bronchitis. Kitchin served at Harefield and Dartford with No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital.
Role: nurse
Award:
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations:
Key events: joined in 1917 June and in the same month she set sail for India, where she worked in Bombay and Poona until 1919. nursing matron who led the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service during the Second World War.
Role: Nurse. Sister
Award:
Organisation: AANS
Units: 2nd Australian General Hospital,
Locations:
Key events: Mary Martin visited the Great Pyramid of Giza and painted her name on the wall inside Campbell's Chamber,
Role: Sister
Award: mentioned in despatches in 1917,[1] and awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1919
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations:
Key events: She kept a detailed diary of her experiences, the basis of which was later published by Janet Butler as Kitty's War
Role: Sister
Award: mentioned in despatches in 1917,[1] and awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1919
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units:
Locations:
Key events: She kept a detailed diary of her experiences, the basis of which was later published by Janet Butler as Kitty's War
Role: Sister Nurse
Award: She was the Associate Royal Red Cross in 1918 and presented with its ribbon by General Sir William Birdwood.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 3 Australian General Hospital, led by Thomas Fiaschi.
Locations: Egypt Lemnos, France, England
Key events: Pidgeon enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 5 May 1915 and sailed for Egypt ten days later
  • Bessie Pocock – Australian nursing sister and army matron (1863–1946)
Role: Senior sister
Award: She was twice Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross for her wartime service.
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 2 Australian General Hospital and she worked there and at a temporary hospital at the city of Ismailia. hospital ship Assaye 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station in Trois Arbres near Steenwerck. No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital.
Locations: Egypt, Ismailia, Trois Abres, UK
Key events: By December 1914 the First World War had started and Pocock was already in Cairo as part of the Australian Imperial Force. She was a senior sister with For over six months starting in July 1915 she was in charge and looking after wounded soldiers as they were ferried from the Gallipoli campaign.[1] She cared for them on the hospital ship Assaye as it travelled between Alexandria and Gallipoli and then on to Malta and the United Kingdom before returning again to Alexandria.
Role: Sister
Award: For her bravery during the raid, Pratt was awarded the Military Medal. She was one of only seven Australian nurses to receive the Military Medal in the First World War. She was presented with her award by King George V at Buckingham Palace in October 1917, the citation for the medal praising her "conspicuous gallantry displayed in the performance of her duties on the occasion of hostile air raids on Casualty Clearing Stations in the field".
Organisation: Australian Army Nursing Service
Units: No. 3 Australian General Hospital (3AGH) and nurse soldiers wounded at Gallipoli.[2] She subsequently served with 3AGH in Abbassia, Egypt, before transferring to No. 1 Australian General Hospital in England. Pratt was posted to the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station (1ACCS) at Bailleul in France in May 1917
Locations: Lemnos, Bailleul in France
Key events: Pratt enlisted May 1915 and was immediately 1917. Two months later, during an air raid in the early hours of 4 July, she was wounded but continued to tend her patients. When she eventually collapsed, it was discovered that shrapnel had lodged in her lungs. She was promoted to sister on 5 July, stabilised and sent to England for treatment. An operation failed to remove the shrapnel but she recovered to resume service at postings in England.
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