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By Peter Rees
By the tip of the good War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died in abroad carrier and more than 200 had been adorned. those have been girls who left for struggle on an event, yet have been quickly faced with awesome demanding situations for which their civilian lives may possibly by no means have ready them. They have been there for the horrors of Gallipoli and so they have been there for the savagery the Western entrance. Within 12 hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they'd greater than 500 horrifically injured sufferers to have a tendency on one filled health facility send, and ratings of deaths on all of the harrowing days that undefined. each evening used to be a nightmare. Their energy and humanity have been outstanding. utilizing diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the sanatorium camps, wards, and tent surgical procedures at the fringe of essentially the most terrible battlefronts of human heritage. yet he additionally permits the friendships and loves of those brave and compassionate ladies to complement their studies, and ours. this can be a very human tale from a distinct period, while ladies had now not lengthy began their quest for equality and gained the vote. They have been at the frontline of social swap in addition to battle, and the hurdles they'd to beat and the associated fee they paid, in my view and professionally, cause them to a different team in Anzac background. Profoundly relocating, The different Anzacs is tale of amazing compassion and braveness proven by way of a gaggle of Australian and New Zealand ladies whose contribution to the Anzac legend has slightly been well-known in historical past. Peter Rees has replaced our figuring out of that heritage forever.
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Alice saw her as a martinet. When another sister, ‘poor little Clarrie Green’, learned by telegram that her mother had died in Australia, and letters from the mother kept arriving, Bell showed no sympathy. Alice was outraged. ‘Miss Bell was such a brute to her. Would not give her any time off duty although she had a nurse to spare and went around growling at her. Miss B. ’4 If the struggle between Bell and Ramsay Smith complicated life at the hospital, work in the wards could also be politically tricky, as Alice experienced one night when Ramsay Smith conducted an inspection.
As malaria and dysentery soon began to take their toll on the occupying Australians, medical reinforcements, including nurses, were quickly sent from Sydney aboard the hospital ship Grantala. Also in September 1914, the first Australian nurses saw service in Europe. Sisters Claire Trestrail, Myrtle Wilson and Catherine Tully were in the middle of the fighting in Antwerp, Belgium, working at a makeshift 120-bed British Red Cross hospital. By a quirk of fate, the three nurses had been in England when war broke out a few weeks earlier.
As one Australian sister at a hospital in France noted, they always knew when wounded Anzacs arrived: ‘If they are not too ill they generally call out “Hullo Australia” or some such remark, they know our uniform from the English sisters. ’ Another sister captured it this way in a letter home from a hospital on Malta: ‘You don’t know [how] these boys of ours love to come across an Australian woman, and then when they saw us they were nearly too shy to come and speak to me . . ’ Like so many of her boys from the bush, Narelle Hobbes, the former matron of Brewarrina Hospital in far western New South Wales, died on active duty before the war ended.