Shena Campbell Bewglass as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1941-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett

Places	Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Katherine Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Cairns Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Innisfail Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Northfield Oceania: Australia, Tasmania, Campbell Town Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Accession Number	S01808
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	36 min
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	1/4 inch sound tape reel; BASF LP 35; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; stereo; 5 inch
Maker	Bewglass, Sheena Campbell Bassett, Jan
Date made	21 May 1987
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Source credit to	AWM Special Project Fellowship Award

Description

Early life; civilian nursing training; enlisted in Hobart in November 1941; posted to Katherine in Northern Territory; en route to Katherine stopped overnight in Townsville on the night of the first bombing of Townsville; living conditions in Katherine; food; accommodation; bathing; description of hospital facilities; recreation; treatment of wounded American pilot; special ward established for the treatment of Aboriginal women; posted to Northfield in Adelaide then to Cairns in Queensland; travelling on hospital trains; period in Innisfail; posted to the 2/7th Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Lae, New Guinea in 1944; nursing patients sent over from Rabaul; treatment of a native woman with a birthing problem; after war Lae hospital closed and then flew to Rabaul; in charge of psychiatric ward at Rabaul hospital; returned to Australia on the hospital ship Manunda; demobbed in June 1946 at Hobart; returned to civilian nursing in Tasmania; retired in 1972; member of the Returned Sisters Association which became a sub-branch of the Returned Services League (RSL). END OF INTERVIEW
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