Enid Edmeades Ratcliff as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett Accession Number: S01806

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Early life; nursing training; joining the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1940, sent to Gaza in Palestine with the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital; conditions in Gaza; ailments of patients; sent to Cairo to work in British Army hospital; working conditions in British hospital; sent to Haifa then Kantara; recreation; placed in camp in Port Suez before return to Australia via Colombo; arrival in Perth then movement to Adelaide; posted to orthopeadic hospital in Frankston; posted to Toowoomba then to training unit at Darley; posted to Aitape in New Guinea; uniforms worn in tropics; posted to Rabaul on New Britain; conditions; Japanese prisoners working in hospital; discharged in 1946; civilian nursing in Tasmania after war; recounts experience of air raid in Middle East. END OF INTERVIEW

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Accession Number
S01806
Interviewer/Recordist
Jan Bassett
Interviewee
Captain Enid Edmeades Ratcliff
Classification
Sound
Object Type
Oral history
Physical Description
Brand: BASF LP 35
Carrier: 1/4 inch sound tape reel
Size: 5 inch
Speed: 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s
Track: stereo
Measurement
33 min
Date Made
22 May 1987
Place Made
Launceston
Whole/Part
Intellectual record
Item Count
1
Credit Line
AWM Special Project Fellowship Award
Access
Open
Copying Provisions
Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Copyright
AWM copyright

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