Janet Lucas as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett

Places	Africa: Egypt, Alexandria Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island Europe: Greece, Athens, Piraeus Europe: Greece, Crete Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine, Gaza Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Armidale Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Greta Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Bonegilla Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number	S01823
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	32 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	Lucas, Janet Bassett, Jan
Date made	19 February 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; 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 Greta, New South Wales; left on SS Queen Mary for Middle East; describes conditions and uniforms; sent to Piraeus in Greece; lost commanding officer in German air attack; describes evacuation from Greece onboard HMAS Voyager; relationship with British nurses; went to Crete then Alexandria and attached to British hospital; left Middle East for Australia on SS Mauritania in 1942; set up hospital in Armidale NSW; promoted to Matron; 2/5th AGH then moved to Port Moresby; in 1943 2/5th AGH moved to Morotai; malaria and scrub typhus; health of nurses; conditions on Morotai; condition of Australian prisoners of war (POW) evacuated from Borneo; returned from Morotai in 1945 and posted as matron to camp hospital at Bonegilla, Victoria; demobilised in 1946; effects of war on advances in medical treatment and procedures. END OF INTERVIEW
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