Sources available in the Research Centre of the Australian War Memorial

BOOKS

Adam-Smith, Patsy. Australian women at war. Melbourne, Nelson, 1984.

Australia Dept. of Information. Australian women at war, 1939 (Department of Information on behalf of the Council for Women in War Work), (Canberra), Department of Information, (1945).

Australia. Industrial Welfare Division. Code of working conditions for women personnel. Melbourne, Australia Red Cross Society, 1949.

Australia. Army Handbook of Voluntary Aid Detachments in Australia: 1943. Melbourne, Modern Printing, 1943.

Australian Red Cross Society. Dress regulations manual for uniformed women personnel. Melbourne, Australian Red Cross Society, 1949.

AWAS: women making history. Chevron Island, Qld, Boolarang Publications, 1989.

Barker, Marianne. Nightingales in the mud: the digger sisters of the great war 1914 - 1918. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1989.

Bassett, Jan. The home front 1914 - 1918. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1983.

Bassett, Jan. Guns and brooches: Australian Army nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War. Melbourne, OUP., 1992.

Bayne, Mollie. Australian women at war. Melbourne, Research Group of the Left Book Club of Victoria, 1943.

Brodziak, Innes. Proudly we served: stories of the 2/5 Australian general Hospital at war with Germany, behind the German lines, and at war ... Chatswood, N.S.W., 2.5 Australian General Hospital Asociation, 1988.

Burchill, Elizabeth. The paths I've trod. foreword by Allan Marshall, Howard Smith. Melbourne, Spectrum, 1981.

A brief record of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-1945. Compiled by VFX 47777. (Melbourne), (V.F.X. 47777), (1985?).

Butler, A.G. The official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918 vol.3. Melbourne, Australian War Memorial, 1930-1943, pp. 527-589.

Corkhill, Pearl. Just a few letters, edited by Eleanor Hain. (Forster, N.S.W./), E. Hain?, (1984?).

Cousins, Inez. Through a rear vision mirror: ten years service with Transport Section of Red Cross. Melbourne, Surrey Press, 1949.

Critch, Mary. Our kind of war. Compiled by Mary Critch. (Perth), WA, Artlook Books Trust, 1981.

Crouch, Joan. One life is ours: the story of Ada Joyce Bridge. Darlinghurst, N.S.W., St. Luke's Hospital Nightingale Committee, 1989.

Curtis-Otter, Margaret. WRANS: the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service. Garden Island, NSW, Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1975.

Davis, Norma M. Newcastle Central Detachment, Red Cross V.A.D., 1939-1960. (Newcastle), The Author, (1960).

Donnell, Anne. Letters of an Australian army sister. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1920.

Elliot, Madge. My life as a WAAAF; as told to Aura Jackson. (Sydney?), s.l. (1944?).

Festberg, Alfred N. Australia in uniform, 1943. Bandiana, Vic, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Museum, 1977.

Festberg, Alfred N. A short history of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, s.l., s.n.

Frankston and Peninsula ex-Servicewomen's R.S.L. Sub-Branch. "Fifty Years On" (1945-1995) Australia Remembers "And We Remember." Frankston, Vic., Norman James Printing, 1995.

Grant, Arch. Australia's frontline matron, Edith McQuade White. Dee Why, NSW, Frontier Publishing, 1991.

Graves, Charles. Women in green: (the story of the W.V.S.). Melbourne, Heinemann, 1948.

Gray, Sheila. The South African War 1899-1902: service records of British and colonial women. A record of service in South Africa of military and civilian nurses, laywomen and civilians. Auckland, N.Z., Sheila Gray, 1993.

Grey, Jeffrey. A military history of Australia. N.Y. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Goodman, Rupert D. Hospital at war: the story of 2/4 Australian General Hospital 1940-1945. Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1983.

Goodman, Rupert D. Hospital ships. Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1992.

Goodman, Rupert D. Our war nurses: the history of the Royal Australian Nursing Corps 1902-1988. Bowen Hills, Qld, Boolarong Publications, 1988.

Goodman, Rupert D. Queensland nurses: Boer War to Vietnam. Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1985.

Goodman, Rupert D. VAD'S in peace and war. Brisbane, Boolarong, 1991.

Halstead, Gay. Story of the RAAF Nursing Service 1940-1990. Metung, Vic., Nungurner Press 1994.

Haynes, Olive L. C. We are here, too: the diaries and letters of Sister Olive L.C. Haynes, November 1914 to February 1918, compiled and edited by Margaret O. Young. Adelaide, Australian Down Syndrome Association, c1991.

Herring, Enid Dalton. They wanted to be nightingales: a story of the V.A.D./A.A.M.W.S in World War II. Hawthorn, SA, Investigator Press, 1982.

History of the Australian Comforts Fund : being the official record of a voluntary civilian organisation. Sydney, Scotow and Presswell, (1922).

History of the Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service, 1942-1974. (s.l.), 1974. History of the Women's Australian National Services, 1940-1946. Sydney, Luxton & Hooper Printers, N.D.

The home front family album: remembering Australia 1939-1945, introduction by Nancy Keesing. Sydney, Weldon, 1991.

Howard, Ann. You'll be sorry. Sydney, Tarka, 1990.

Inglis, K.S. Men women and war memorials : ANZAC Australia (Canton, Ma.), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987.

Jackson, C.O. Badham. Proud story : the official history of the Australian Comforts Fund. Sydney, F.H. Joh, (s.n.)

Jackson, C.O. Badham. A state at war: the official history of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales. Sydney, (s.l.) 1947.

Jeffrey, Betty. White coolies, illustrated by J.P.L. Kickefer. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1954.

Kenny, Catherine. Captives: Australian army nurses in Japanese prison camps. St,.Lucia, Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1986.

Khaki clad and glad : join the Australian Military Forces in the AWAS or AAMWS. (Melbourne?), Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, nd.

Kirkcaldie, R.A. In gray and scarlet. Melbourne, Alexander Mccubbin, (1922).

K.W.W.W. : Report of the Ku-ring-gai Women War Workers; six years of service, September 1939-September, 1945. (Ku-ring-gai), NSW, Advocate Press, s.n.

Leslie, J.H. An historical roll (with portraits) of those women of the British Empire to whom the Military Medal has been awarded... Sheffield, Sir W.C. Leng, 1919-1920.

Lest we forget: Australian Army Nursing Service. Melbourne, Premier Printing Co., for A.A.N.S., 1944.

Letters home 1939 - 1945, collected & edited by Lurline Stuart. Sydney, William Collins, 1987.

Lindsay, Joan. The story of the Red Cross. (Melbourne), Australian Red Cross Society, (1941).

Lighter shades of grey and scarlet, complied by Stella Guthrie and Jill Clarke. (Adelaide), S. Guthrie & J. Clarke, (1985).

McClelland, James. Names and particulars of all Australian airmen-soldiers and nurses, killed in action, died while P.O.W. or who were massacred. Silverdale, N.S.W., James McClelland Research, 1990.

McHugh, Siobhan. Minefields and miniskirts: Australian women and the Vietnam War. Sydney, Doubleday, 1993.

McQuade White, E (Edith). Reminiscences of an Australian Army Nurse. (Brisbane), Eager & Lamb, (1950?)

Make B.A.R.R.A.C.K. spell H.O.M.E. for the duration, issued by authority of Commander-in-chief, Australian Military Forces. Melbouren, Arbuckle Waddell, 1943.

Mainon, Beryl. My life in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1941-1945 : a roll call of women who enlisted in Western Australia, compiled and researched by Pianta Joan (Sheridan). (Bullcreedk, W.A.), J. Sheridan, 1988.

Mann, Sheila. The girls were up there too : Australian women in aviation. Canberra, AGPS, 1986.

Martin, Allan William. "At war: women in the war" in Australians from 1939. Edited by Ann Curthoys, A.W. Martin and Tim Rowse. Broadway, NSW, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, 1988. pp. 26-28.

Massey-Higgins, Patricia. They speed the eagles: the story of the W.A.A.A.F. (the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force). Sydney, F.H. Johnson, 1944. Mill, Lorna. Been there - done that. (Vic), L. Mill, (1984).

Minogue, Noreen. The Red Cross 1914-1975 : years of change. (Melbourne), Australian Red Cross Society, (1978).

Misto, John The Shoe Horn Sonato Sydney, Currency Press, 1996. (Note: A Play)

Mitchell, Ann M. Medical women and the medical services of the First World War. (Sydney), A. Mitchell, (c1978).

Moberly, Gertrude F. Experiences of a "dinki di" R.R.C. nurse. Glebe, N.S.W., Australasian Medical Pub. Co., 1933.

Mount-Batten, Betty J. From blue to khaki. (N.S.W.?), Betty J. Mount-Batten, 1995.

Murphy, Frances. Desert, bamboo and barbed wire: the 1939 story of a special detachment of Australian Army nursing sisters, fondly known as the "Angels in Grey" and their fate in war and captivity. Hornsby, NSW, Ollif, 1983.

Newman-Morris, John, Sir. The origin and growth of voluntary aid to the medical services in time of war. (Melbourne), Australian Red Cross Society, 1940.

Odgers, George. The Royal Australian Navy : an illustrated history. Brookvale, NSW, Child and Henry, 1985.

The official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918 vol. 1. Melbourne, Australian War Memorial, 1938.

Ollif, Lorna. Colonel Best and her soldiers : the story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps. Hornsby, NSW, Ollif Publishing Co., c1985.

Ollif, Lorna. Women in khaki. (Sydney), Ollif Pub. co, 1981.

Physical & recreational training: for Australian Women's Services. prepared by the Department of Health in co-operation with the General Staff. Melbourne, A.H. Massina, (1944).

Potts, Annette. For the love of a soldier : Australian war-brides and their GIs. Crows Nest, (N.S.W.), ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (n.d).

Remember, editor and convenor, Patricia Penrose; contributors Joyce Anderson et al. Brighton, (Vic), Australian Women's Army Service, Signals, c1992.

Robinson, Gwen. The forgotten women : personal accounts of Australian nurses abroad in World War 1. Australia, The Author, c1989.

Roberts, Rowley G. Birth of a navy. Perth, WA, Paterson's Ltd., 1961.

Robertson, John. Australia goes to war 1939-45. Sydney, NSW, Doubleday, 1984.

Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps: an outline of the foundation and development of the Australian Army Nursing Service. (s.l.), Australian Army Headquarters, 1953?

Royal Australian Navy Jubilee souvenir : highlights from the past, an account of the present, a glimpse of the future. Canberra, Dept of Navy, 1961, pp. 34-35.

Scates, Bruce and Frances, Raelene. Women and the Great War. N.Y., Cambridge University Press, 1997

Scott, Jean. Girls with grit : memories of the Australian Women's Land Army. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1986.

Sheridan, Joan. Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force 1941-1945 : a roll call of women who enlisted in Western Australia. Compiled by Pianta Joan Sheridan. (Bullcreek, W.A.), J. Sheridan, 1988.

Simmelhaig, Helen. For Australia's sake : a history of Australia's involvement in nine wars. Melbourne, Nelson, 1984.

Simons, Jessie Elizabeth. In Japanese hands: Australian nurses as POW's. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1985.

Simpson, Sheila. Medical pathfinders. Sydney, 2/1 Australian General Hospital Association, 1990.

Staude, Lorna. Memoirs of an A.W.A.S driver. Naracoorte, S.A., Naracoorte Herald, 1989.

Street, Jessie. Truth or repose. Sydney, Australasian Book Society, 1966.

Stubbings, L. G. Look what you started Henry! : a history of the Australian Red Cross 1914-1991. East Melbourne, Vic, Australian Red Cross Society, 1992.

Syllabus of recruit training: draft Prority 4 (d.P.4) stage. Army Women's Services. Australia, (Army), 1943.

Thanks girls and goobye : the story of the Australian Women's Land Army 1942-1945, edited by Sue Hardisty. Ringwood, Vic, Viking O'Neill, 1990.

They wrote it themselves : a book of the W.A.A.A.F. Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1946.

Tilton, May. The grey battalion. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934.

Tucker, Eileen. We answered the call : AWAS of Western Australia and their mates. Cloverdale, (WA), E. Tucker, 1991.

Underwood, Plly. The reflections of an old grey mare: a salute to those who served. (Kenmore, Qld.), P. Underwood, 1987.

Voluntary war workers' record, compiled for the benefit of the Australian Comforts Fund. Melbourne, Arbuckle Waddell Propy, Ltd., (1918).

The WAAAF book, edited by Clare Stevenson. Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, c1984.

Waddell, Jean. Shut the gate. Warragul, Vic, J. Waddell, 1989.

Walker, Allan S. Medical services of the RAN and RAAF, with a section on women in the army medical services. Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1961, pp. 408-487.

Walton, Nancy Bird. My God! its a woman: autobiography of Nancy Bird. North Ryde, N.S.W., Angus and Robertson, 1990.

Williams, Jennifer Ann. Victoria's living memorial: history of the Nurses Memorial Centre, 1948-1990. Melbourne, Nurses Memorial Centre, 1991.

With horse and morse in Mesopotamia: the story of ANZACS in Asia, editor Keast Burke. Sydney, A&NZ wireless Signal Squadron History Committee, (Arthur Mcquitty & Co.), 1927.

Women at war. Melbourne, (Women's Auxiliary, Australia-Soviet Friendship League.) (s.n.)

Women's activities in Australia 2 vols, text and photographs prepared for Dr Edith Sommerskill, Empire Parliamentary Delegation, Australia, 1944.

Worth her salt : women at work in Australia, edited by Margaret Bevege, Margaret James, Carmel Shute. Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, c1982.

"Yes Madam". Victoria, (Melbourne), AWAS, 1943.

JOURNALS

Bassett, Jan. 'Ready to serve: Australian women and the Great War'. Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no. 2, April 1983, pp 8-16.

Crisp, Helen. 'Women in munitions'. Australian Quarterly, vol. 13 no. 3, September 1941 pp. 71-76.

Kellett, A.N. 'Women in the war'. Reveille, vol. 1 no. 1, August 8 1927 p. 15.

Reekie, Gail. 'Industrial action by women workers in Western Australia during World War II'. Labour History, no 49, November 1985 pp 75-82.

Smith, Mary. 'War widows: the forgotten victims of war'. Journal of the Australian War Memorial, No. 55, October 1984. pp. 9-14.