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A11060 Corporal Kevin Patrick Melican, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), 1951-1952, interviewed by Bill Bunbury, about his service with the RAAF during the Korean War.
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Maker: Melican, Kevin Patrick
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...S01916
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Alice Maud Penman (née Burns), as a corporal, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45
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Maker: Penman née Burns, Alice Maud Stokes, Edward
Alice Maud Penman nee Burns, as a corporal, served at Gaza Ridge, Palestine and 2/6th Australia General Hospital, Atherton QLD, discusses aspects of her early life and process of training; her interes...S00774
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Ann Christine Lee (neé Wright) as a lieutenant nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1970-1971, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Nursing training; joining Army; working in Intensive Care Unit in Vietnam; efficiency of Triage; quality of medics; stress; burns injuries; quality of soldiers looking after their mates; discriminatio...S01631
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Ann Margaret MacIntosh née Scot Skirving, as a corporal, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Macintosh née Scot Skirving, Ann Margaret Stokes, Edward
Ann Margaret MacIntosh née Scot Skirving, as a corporal, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00776
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Betty Hunt-Smith, interviewed by Bill Bunbury, about her experiences as a nurse stationed in Japan during the Korean War
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Maker: Hunt-Smith, Betty
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...S01910
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Charles Frederick Thomas Price, as a sergeant, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Price, Charles Frederick Thomas Stokes, Edward
Charles Frederick Thomas Price, as a sergeant, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00780
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Charles Webster and Margaret Webster (nee Nicholson) interviewed about their experiences during the Korean War by Bill Bunbury
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Maker: Webster, Charles U. Bunbury, Bill
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...S01918
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Christine Elliott Carson McMahon (neé Buchanan) as a captain nursing sister, 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam, 1970-1971, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
First dustoff, relationship with other Australians in Vietnam, attitude to war, compassion, image of nurses, leave in Bankok, willingness to return to Vietnam, caring for Vietnamese civilians, leaving...S01089
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Colleen Ann Thurgar (neé Mealy) as a lieutenant nursing sister 8th Ambulance later 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1966-1967, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Joining army; in the first group of four nurses to be posted to 8th Field Ambulance in Vietnam; description of accommodation and hospital facilities; hospital upgraded to 1 Australian Hospital; unifor...S01547
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Colonel Nellie (Nell) Espie as a Nurse, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) Korea, Malaya and Vietnam interviewed by Libby Stewart
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Maker: Espie, Nellie Jane Stewart, Elizabeth (Libby)
A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please contact the Sound section.S05032
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Dianne Badcock (neé Lawrence) as a lieutenant nursing sister, 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam, 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Dianne Badcock (neé Lawrence) as a lieutenant nursing sister, 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam, 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn HemmingsS01521
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Dr Ralph George Bryant Cameron as a major, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Cameron, Ralph George Bryant Stokes, Edward
Dr Ralph George Bryant Cameron as a major, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00778
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Dulcie Thompson as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1940-1966, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Thompson, Dulcie Vera Bassett, Jan
Early life; began nursing at the age of 19 in Adelaide; joined army reserve in 1937; after declaration of war in 1939 carried out part-time nursing duties for the army on days off from civilian nursin...S01811
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Edna Nell Doig as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1939-1970, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Doig, Edna Nell
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training in 1933; joined army in December 1939; attached to 2/2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Ingleburn NSW; left Australia 5 May 1940 on the SS Queen M...S01813
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Effie May Fussell (nee Garden) as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) 1914-18, and Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), 1939-45, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Fussell (nee Garden), Effie May
Early life; nursing training in Bendigo; joining army; voyage to Egypt; conditions at Heliopolis in Egypt; types of wounds suffered by the Australian troops; moving with the 1st Australian General Hos...S01815
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Elizabeth Ann Healey (neé Hall) as a captain nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam, 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Elizabeth Ann Healey (neé Hall) as a captain nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam, 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn HemmingsS01519
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Enid Edmeades Ratcliff as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Ratcliff, Enid Edmeades Bassett, Jan
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...S01806
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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 Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1951-1972, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Baxter, Ethel Adelaide Bassett, Jan
(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...S01817
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Graeme Arthur Unmack as a craftsman A Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment Light Aid Detachment, South Vietnam 1970 [recorded letter]
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Maker: Unmack, Graeme Arthur
Recorded letter by Craftsman Graeme Arthur Unmack, 1 Armoured Regiment Light Aid Detachment, Vietnam, 19 February 1970. Recording is made to his family, narrating his role in Operation Hammersley.S03048
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Gwendolyn Merle Taylor, as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Taylor, Gwendolyn Merle Bassett, Jan
Early life; nursing training; joined army reserve in 1937; called up in 1940; left for Middle East on Queen Mary with six thousand troops in 1941; nursing duties during voyage; arrival in Gaza; descri...S01807
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Helen Francis Adamson as a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Adamson, Helen Francis Bassett, Jan
Early life; civilian nursing training and experience; joined Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) in 1959; first posting to Puckapunyal in Victoria; describes uniform; posted to Ingleburn in NS...S01810
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Interview with Lawrie Margaret Hobbs (nee Pfeiffer) about her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War.
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Maker: Hobbs, Lawrie Margaret (nee Pfeiffer)
Lawrie Margaret Hobbs (nee Pfeiffer) interviewed by Alison Viney Houghton for her "The Age of Innocence 1937-1947" oral history project. The interview covers her experience as a young person living th...AWM2018.572.29
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Iris Grace Hutton as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1942-1970, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Hutton, Iris Grace Bassett, Jan
Early life; enlisted in April 1942 and discharged November 1970; sent to Aitape in New Guinea; suitability of uniform in tropics; describes conditions in hospital; in 1952 posted to Malaya as part of ...S01812
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James Colin Wilkinson as a sapper, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Wilkinson, James Colin Stokes, Edward
James Colin Wilkinson as a sapper, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00781
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Janet Lucas as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Lucas, Janet Bassett, Jan
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training at Sydney Hospital in 1926; registered for army reserve in 1939; called up in 1940; posted to 2/5th Australian General Hospital (AGH); camp hospital at ...S01823
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Janet Patteson (Pat) Darling (nee Gunther) interviewed by Barbara Orchard about her experiences as a nurse and prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese 1942-1945
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Maker: Gunther, Pat Orchard, Barbara
TAPE 1: nursing training; volunteer for Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS); enlistment; travel on SS Queen Mary; arrival in Singapore; with 10th Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Malacca; 2/4 C...S02024
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Jean O'Neill as a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1953-1977, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan O'Neill, Jean
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...S01814
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Jean O'Neill as the major Matron 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1968-1969, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: O'Neill, Jean Hemmings, Lynn
Support given to Vietnamese orphanage; relationship with staff at Australian civilian hospital at Vung Tau; risk of attack by Viet Cong and evacuation plans; curfews; discipline; actions of commanding...S01580
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Joan Avril Cameron née Champion as a captain, 2/6 Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Cameron née Champion, Joan Avril Stokes, Edward
Joan Avril Cameron née Champion as a captain, 2/6 Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00775
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Judith Wallace as a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1965-1985, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Wallace, Judith
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...S01818
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June Ellen Naughton (neé Miinchow) as a captain nursing sister and Michael Anthony Naughton as the lieutenant colonel Commanding Officer both 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Nursing training; joining army; selection of nurses for service in Vietnam; preparation for departure; theatre sister in Vietnam; role and training of theatre technicians; relations with other staff; ...S01578
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Leonard William 'Len' Anderson as a private, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.
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Maker: Anderson, Leonard William Stokes, Edward
Leonard William 'Len' Anderson as a private, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Edward Stokes for The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45.S00779
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Leslie Margaret McGurgan (nee Smith) as a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), South Vietnam, 1970-1971, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: McGurgan (nee Smith), Leslie Margaret Bassett, Jan
Early life; commenced nursing training at Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney in March 1963; joined Citizens Military Force in 1967; joined regular army on 28 March 1969; left for Vietnam on 28 April 1970; ...S01822
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Lieutenant Erica van Ash, Trauma Nurse, 5RAR, Mentoring Taskforce 2, interviewed by Stephanie Boyle at Al Minhad Air Base
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Maker: van Ash, Erica Marie Boyle, Stephanie
Lieutenant van Ash discusses becoming a nurse, enlisting in the Army and her experiences with the MTF 2, including with whom she works at the Role 2 medical facilities and capabilities available in Ta...S05044
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Lieutenant Yvonne Norma Werndly as a theatre sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969, interviewed by Captain Derek Roylance
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Maker: Werndly, Yvonne Norma Roylance, Derek John
Werndly speaks of the differences between working in a military hospital compared with working in a civilian hospital. A transcript of this recording may be available. For further information please ...S03667
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Life on the Line [Series 1, Episode 2] Sharon Bown
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Maker: Thistle Productions
Alex Lloyd interviews Sharon Bown. Podcast released 5 September 2017. Episode description from www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com: Life on the Line tracks down Australian war veterans and records their sto...AWM2018.414.2
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Lorraine Stewart Blow as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1948, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Blow, Lorraine Stewart
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training in 1926 at Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney; travelled to India and nursed there; returned to Australia in 1939 and enlisted in the army; called up in 1...S01825
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Margaret Elston Webster (nee Nicholson) as a member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), Japan and South Korea, 1951-1953, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Webster, Margaret Elston Sealy
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 ...S01820
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Margaret Fay Hopcraft (neé Ahern) as a captain nursing sister 8th Field Ambulance later 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1967-1968, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hopcraft, Margaret Fay Hemmings, Lynn
Joining army; first group of nurses sent to Vietnam; selection procedures; first impressions of hospital in Vietnam; attitude of male army medics to nurses; changes the nurses brought to the hospital;...S01579
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Margaret Fay Hopcraft (nee Ahern) as a captain nursing sister 8th Field Ambulance later 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1967-1968, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Hopcraft, Margaret Fay Bassett, Jan
Early life; commenced civilian nursing in 1958; enlisted 4 July 1965; discusses Matron Mickie Sayer a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War; first posting to the 2nd Camp Hospita...S01816
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Mary Ruth Divine (neé Page) as a captain nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Nursing training; reason for joining Army; preparation for posting to Vietnam; first impressions of Field Hospital in Vung Tau; strongest memories of activities and daily life; medics; US nurses; nurs...S01630
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Maureen Gladys Patch (neé Healy) as a lieutenant nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital 1970-1971, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Patch (nee Healy), Maureen Gladys Hemmings, Lynn
Nursing training prior to joining army; joining army; difficulty of getting pantyhose in Vietnam; living conditions; food; water; toilets; duty shifts; training on the job; types of casualties and inj...S01629
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McPherson (nee Keast), Daisy Cardin (Tootie) as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Keast, Daisy Cardin Bassett, Jan
Early life; commenced civilian nursing training in 1932; enlisted late 1940 and posted to Ingleburn camp hospital; 18 April 1941 left Sydney on the Hollandia for Rabaul, New Britain and attached to 2/...S01824
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Minefields and Miniskirts, Australian Women and the Vietnam War, Six part Radio Documentary
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Maker: ABC Radio National McHugh, Siobhan
Three CDs featuring the six part radio documentary first broadcast on ABC Radio National April/May 1993. This series features the interviews with twenty five women that were in the "Minefields and Min...S04359
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Nell Williamson as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-44, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Williamson, Nell Bassett, Jan
Enlisted 1940, discharged 1944. Early life; civilian nursing training at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney; registered in the army reserve; ran private hospital at Tullamore NSW then in 1937 went t...S01819
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Nora Trethewie (nee Hales) as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1945-1952, interviewed by Jan Bassett
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Maker: Bassett, Jan Trethewie, Nora Hope
Enlisting in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in March 1945; served in 111 Australian General Hospital in Campbell Town Tasmania; description of hospital; posted to Bonegilla, Victoria then ...S01809
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Pamela Anne Barlow (nee Matthews) as a lieutenant nursing sister, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1968-1969, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Barlow (Matthews), Pamela Anne Hemmings, Lynn
Joining army; selection for Vietnam; departure; arrival in Vietnam while airport under attack; first impression of hospital; relationship between male army medics and nursing staff; off duty activitie...S01581
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Patricia Helen Kennedy (neé Yorke) as a lieutenant nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Hemmings, Lynn
Patricia Helen Kennedy (neé Yorke) as a lieutenant nursing sister 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn HemmingsS01520
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Patricia Kay Gibbons (née Ferguson) as a lieutenant nursing sister and Elizabeth Ann Healey (neé Hall) as a captain nursing sister both 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, interviewed by Lynn Hemmings
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Maker: Gibbons (nee Ferguson), Patricia Kay Hemmings, Lynn
Patricia Kay Gibbons (née Ferguson) as a lieutenant nursing sister and Elizabeth Ann Healey (neé Hall) as a captain nursing sister both 1st Australian Field Hospital, South Vietnam 1969-1970, intervie...S01522
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Rhodanthe Lipsett OAM as a nurse, midwife and resident of Canberra since 1957, interviewed by Ally Roche
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Maker: Australian War Memorial Kosmider, Michael Lipsett, Rhodanthe Roche, Ally
Rhodanthe discusses her memories of the Australian War Memorial and Canberra since moving to the ACT in 1957.S05364