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Early life; civilian nursing training; enlisted in Hobart in November 1941; posted to Katherine in Northern Territory; en route to Katherine stopped overnight in Townsville on the night of the first bombing of Townsville; living conditions in Katherine; food; accommodation; bathing; description of hospital facilities; recreation; treatment of wounded American pilot; special ward established for the treatment of Aboriginal women; posted to Northfield in Adelaide then to Cairns in Queensland; travelling on hospital trains; period in Innisfail; posted to the 2/7th Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Lae, New Guinea in 1944; nursing patients sent over from Rabaul; treatment of a native woman with a birthing problem; after war Lae hospital closed and then flew to Rabaul; in charge of psychiatric ward at Rabaul hospital; returned to Australia on the hospital ship Manunda; demobbed in June 1946 at Hobart; returned to civilian nursing in Tasmania; retired in 1972; member of the Returned Sisters Association which became a sub-branch of the Returned Services League (RSL). END OF INTERVIEW
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