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

Places	Africa: Egypt, Cairo, Heliopolis Europe: France, Haute-Normandie, Seine Maritime, Rouen
Accession Number	S01815
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	34 min 40 sec
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	Fussell (nee Garden), Effie May
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Canterbury
Date made	1 October 1986
Access	Open
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945 First World War, 1914-1918
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; 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 Hospital (1AGH) to Rouen in France; living conditions; transfer to casualty clearing stations; living conditions of nurses at casualty clearing stations; description of doctors and orderlies; description of nurses uniform; food; bathing; recreation; helmets and gas masks; gassing victims; trench feet; leave from France; voyage back to Australia on "war brides ship" in 1919; marriage in 1920; serving in VAD during Second World War; lasting physical effects of service in First World War; formation of Returned Nurses Club; the Edith Cavell Trust Fund; brief mention of her sister Winifred's nursing service in First World War. END OF INTERVIEW.
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