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Sep 12, 2014 · This incident in the life of Alice Ross-King is a memorable moment in Peter Rees' book Anzac Girls, the often-forgotten story of nurses from Australia and New Zealand who served in the World War I. By the end of the war 45 Anzac nurses had died on overseas service. Alice Ross-King was one of more than 200 who had been decorated.
Jan 1, 2008 · “ANZAC Girls” is a personal account of the World War I service of nurses from Australia and New Zealand. Drawn from the nurses’ diaries and accounts, author Peter Rees has crafted a narrative that relates their stories in an attention holding style.
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Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised in our history. Peter Rees has changed that understanding forever. Awards: Shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year, 2009 Shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize, 2009
- Sister Alice Ross King
- Matron Grace Wilson
- Sister Olive Haynes
- Sister Hilda Steele
- Sister Elsie Cook
- Respect Came from The Soldiers
Following the death of her true love Lieutenant Harry Moffit and the end of the war, Alice returned to Australia as one of only eight Australian nurses to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery. She had wanted to take leave and visit England but had been denied permission and instead was put in charge of the ship's hospital. During the voyage, s...
Having been awarded the Companionship of the British Empire, the Royal Red Cross and the Florence Nightingale Medal for her military service, Grace became matron on the Repatriation Hospital in Brisbane, then matron-in-chief of the Australian Army Nursing Service. At the outbreak of WWII, she once again nursed with the AIF and dedicated her life to...
Following her marriage to Pat Dooley in December 1917, Olive found she had to work her passage home as a duty nurse on the ship carrying AIF wives and babies. She and Pat settled in Victoria and had seven children, one of whom had Down syndrome. This prompted Olive to become involved in establishing a school for intellectually disabled children in ...
Born in New Zealand, Hilda served with the Australian Army Nurses and returned to Australia on the Orsova in September 1919. She was medically discharged in November but was then detailed for service with the New Zealand Territorial Nursing Service. In 1924, she married Cyril Mulcock, a farmer 13 years her junior and they had a daughter. In 1936 sh...
Following war's end, Elsie and Syd moved to Perth with Syd's job. They had one son before returning to Sydney, where Elsie opened an antiques shop, naming it Grafton Galleries, after the place she had been to celebrate the end of war. The groove in Syd's scalp left by the bullet at Lone Pine was always a source of fascination for their grandchildre...
The lives of nurses returning from war were changed for ever. Most had experienced conditions and situations that profoundly affected them emotionally and professionally and many had lost brothers and sweethearts in battle. But most importantly, these women had discovered a form of independence not experienced by unmarried women prior to 1914. Aust...
ANZAC Girls is an Australian television drama series that first screened on ABC1 on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Alexandria, Lemnos, and the Western Front during the First World War. [1]
Anzac Girl is a spare but powerful story about the experiences of one young female nurse in World War I. Using extracts from Alice Ross-King’s actual diaries, which are kept in the Australian War Memorial, Kate Simpson has woven a narrative that captures the nurse’s experiences, heartache and war history. Alice’s voice rings clear
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Apr 25, 2016 · Anzac Girls. Author/Guide: Peter Rees. Why a Booktrail? WW1 : the harrowing yet hopeful story of the Anzac Girls. ISBN: 978-1743319826. Genre: Historical. Comment. Share this: What you need to know before your trail. World War one saw the death of some 45 nurses from Australia and New Zealand who had died from overseas service.
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