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

Places	Asia: Malaya Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Concord Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, Greenslopes Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, Holland Park Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Cairns, Redlynch Oceania: New Guinea1, Aitape Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number	S01812
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	18 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	Hutton, Iris Grace Bassett, Jan
Date made	11 November 1986
Access	Open
Conflict	Period 1950-1959 Second World War, 1939-1945 Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 Vietnam, 1962-1975
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; 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 Australian contingent attached to a British hospital; recreation in Malaya, New Guinea and Australia; attitude to war; describes the types of wounds treated at Ingleburn Hospital of casualties from the Vietnam War; nursing Japanese prisoners of war at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane during 1943-44; health effects on the nurses of nursing in the tropics; procedures and treatments developed by the military that have benefited medicine generally, for example the treatment of burns and tropical diseases. END OF INTERVIEW
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