Comments on: Dr Phoebe Chapple: The first woman doctor to win the Military Medal http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/ Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Craig Blanch http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/comment-page-1/#comment-6181 Craig Blanch Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:11:31 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3132#comment-6181 Hi Helen and thanks for the comment. I stumbled across Pheobe's story while researching her medals. Your family should be extremely proud of a remarkable woman. Craig Hi Helen and thanks for the comment. I stumbled across Pheobe’s story while researching her medals. Your family should be extremely proud of a remarkable woman.

Craig

]]> By: Helen Kenyon http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/comment-page-1/#comment-6164 Helen Kenyon Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:26:46 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3132#comment-6164 Great to hear all this information about my Auntie. Dr Phoebe Chapple was my Dad's mothers sister. Dad had told us she went to the war, we thought it would have been in the Australian Army. My daughter found this when searching for family history. Thanks to all the people who have put this information together. Great to hear all this information about my Auntie. Dr Phoebe Chapple was my Dad’s mothers sister. Dad had told us she went to the war, we thought it would have been in the Australian Army. My daughter found this when searching for family history. Thanks to all the people who have put this information together.

]]> By: Stu Whiteman http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/comment-page-1/#comment-5120 Stu Whiteman Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:48:25 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3132#comment-5120 'Thank God I'm Australian!' Sister Narrelle Hobbes. ‘Thank God I’m Australian!’
Sister Narrelle Hobbes.

]]> By: Stu Whiteman http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/comment-page-1/#comment-5119 Stu Whiteman Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:37:54 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3132#comment-5119 I just finished Oceans of Love by Melanie Oppenheimer last night about Narrelle Hobbes's service during WW1 in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. (Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve) in Malta, Sicily, Mesopotamia and India and i nearly cried for half an hour when i put it down. And even writting this i have tears in my eyes, it was so sad it breaks my heart it really does. I am a collector and reader of Australian WW1, WW2, Korea & Vietnam uniforms & bits & pieces so i have read alot about what happened during the Great War which is really my No.1 subject but this is the first book i have read about one particular Nurse, and it has truly effected me. Narrelle Hobbes's devotion to duty & her patients, her endurance & determination to help & get back to Active Service even when she was very ill is something i will never forget, absolutely unbelievable. People whinge & complain today for the smallest things it makes me sick, and there the type of people that aren't interested in these types of stories, if only i could chuck'em all in a time machine & send them back to WW1 for only 10 minutes it would take and then say "Do you have anything to complain about now"! And to think that there is no Memorial or anything for these Nurses etc is shameful to say the least, but there is a street or avenue in pymble in sydney N.S.W. that is named after her that the family was able to work out with the council at the time but the bloody council spelt it wrong and there is a little cottage there that is also named after her with plaque at the front gate that i think one of her sisters lived in for a time, i think if i remember correctly part of the family still lives there? Anyway if you see or can get a hold of this book do not hesitate it's a fantastic read, but be prepared to get emotional, i can't stop thinking about her. She did everything that she posssibly could & more to help the wounded & the sick, very patriotic lady, the most patriotic Australian i have ever seen or read about. I'm going to get a nice picture of Narrelle & put it up on the wall in my museum which i think for sure Narrelle would like & i'm going to see if i can get a reproduction Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Uniform and put it on a female manikin that i already have (real WW1 Nurses Uniforms are impossible to find very little survived) and that will be my way of showing my gratitude to this fine lady. And this is just one Nurse so god knows what the others had to go through? Does anybody know if there is a campaign or anything to push for a Nurse's Memorial to be built we also had a family friend that served during WW2 in the V.A.D. (Nella Bailey) or Aunty Nelly as we knew her, one of the nicest ladys i have ever met. "LEST WE FORGET" I just finished Oceans of Love by Melanie Oppenheimer last night about Narrelle Hobbes’s service during WW1 in the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. (Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve) in Malta, Sicily, Mesopotamia and India and i nearly cried for half an hour when i put it down. And even writting this i have tears in my eyes, it was so sad it breaks my heart it really does. I am a collector and reader of Australian WW1, WW2, Korea & Vietnam uniforms & bits & pieces so i have read alot about what happened during the Great War which is really my No.1 subject but this is the first book i have read about one particular Nurse, and it has truly effected me. Narrelle Hobbes’s devotion to duty & her patients, her endurance & determination to help & get back to Active Service even when she was very ill is something i will never forget, absolutely unbelievable. People whinge & complain today for the smallest things it makes me sick, and there the type of people that aren’t interested in these types of stories, if only i could chuck’em all in a time machine & send them back to WW1 for only 10 minutes it would take and then say “Do you have anything to complain about now”! And to think that there is no Memorial or anything for these Nurses etc is shameful to say the least, but there is a street or avenue in pymble in sydney N.S.W. that is named after her that the family was able to work out with the council at the time but the bloody council spelt it wrong and there is a little cottage there that is also named after her with plaque at the front gate that i think one of her sisters lived in for a time, i think if i remember correctly part of the family still lives there? Anyway if you see or can get a hold of this book do not hesitate it’s a fantastic read, but be prepared to get emotional, i can’t stop thinking about her. She did everything that she posssibly could & more to help the wounded & the sick, very patriotic lady, the most patriotic Australian i have ever seen or read about. I’m going to get a nice picture of Narrelle & put it up on the wall in my museum which i think for sure Narrelle would like & i’m going to see if i can get a reproduction Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. Uniform and put it on a female manikin that i already have (real WW1 Nurses Uniforms are impossible to find very little survived) and that will be my way of showing my gratitude to this fine lady. And this is just one Nurse so god knows what the others had to go through? Does anybody know if there is a campaign or anything to push for a Nurse’s Memorial to be built we also had a family friend that served during WW2 in the V.A.D. (Nella Bailey) or Aunty Nelly as we knew her, one of the nicest ladys i have ever met.
“LEST WE FORGET”

]]> By: tom http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/06/30/dr-phoebe-chapple-the-first-woman-doctor-to-recieve-the-military-medal/comment-page-1/#comment-4229 tom Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:16:47 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3132#comment-4229 thank you for the artical thank you for the artical

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