Queenie Sunderland as a WW1 British war bride, interviewed by Peter Rubinstein for "Voices From the Great War".

Queenie talks about her early life in England, working while at Salisbury Station (UK) near the military camp (Larkhill) and there meeting her Australian husband-to-be, Edward Henry Sunderland, a Gunner. She recalls seeing Lord Kitchener on the train platform at Salisbury; her memories of Armistice Day in Salisbury, accompanying her husband to Australia on the troop ship Osterly; staying up at 4am to see the Southern Cross for the first time as they voyaged to Australia; restrictions and friendships on board, return of "abandoned brides" to England, being labelled as a "Pommy bride", adjusting to life on a rural property in Australia; her husband's suffering from carbuncles (attributed to mustard gas in the Great War); her husband's briefly assisting an injured man onto the back of Simpson's donkey; other incidents at Gallipoli such as being on guard duty, encountering a Turkish soldier on guard duty; burying a Turkish soldier's corpse.
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