The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Enlisted July 1951 in Melbourne, discharged July 1953; commenced civilian nursing in August 1945 at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney; after completion of training joined Heidleberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne; recruited into the army in 1951 for two year service in Japan and Korea; posted to British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Hospital in Kure, Japan; describes uniform, working and living conditions; describes patients and injuries treated; working hours; climate; professional relationship between nurses and other medical staff; relations between Australian, British and Canadian nurses; posted to small Australian hospital in Tokyo for six months then posted to Seoul in South Korea in 1953; describes working and living conditions in hospital; leave and recreation; trip to Hiroshima in 1951; returned to Australia on troop ship with 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR); posted to Puckapunyal camp hospital for two months; after completion of two year sign up took discharge and travelled to Britain where she married a British Army doctor whom she had met in Japan; advances in medical treatments as a result of war; comparison between civilian and military nursing; tells the story of being chosen as the model for Napier Waller's servicewomen mosaic in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial; relates her impressions of Napier Waller and the first time she saw the mosaic during a visit to Australia from Britain in 1968. END OF INTERVIEW
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Collection of oral history interviews on the Korean War recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'. A tr
Called up as a National Serviceman in the British Army on 24 October 1951, discharged on 23 October 1953, served as a doctor with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); posted to 29th British Commonweal
This Hall of Memory pendentive features the women's services; depicted here dressed in a blouse and skirt, a generic uniform that could reference all the servicewomen. The various branches of the serv
Study for womens' services pendentive, Hall of Memory.
Enlisted 13 January 1953 in Brisbane, discharged 12 January 1977 in Sydney; lists ranks and postings during career; early life; trained in civilian nursing at Cairns, Queensland; after army training a
Early life; civilian nursing training at Royal Brisbane Hospital; enlisted 28 April 1965; describes living and working conditions at various postings; describes injuries of casualties from Vietnam whi
Called up as a National Serviceman in the British Army on 24 October 1951, discharged on 23 October 1953, served as a doctor with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); posted to 29th British Commonweal
Early life; civilian nursing training at Broken Hill NSW 1953-57; joined army in 1958; posted to 2 Camp Hospital Ingleburn NSW; describes hospital and living conditions; sent to Malaya in January 1959
(F617; TFX6133, T321) Ethel Adelaide Baxter as a member of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), 1941-1948, the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS), 1948-1951, and the Royal A
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