Jill Edith Linton (née Oliver), as a Private, Australian Army Medical Women's Service, interviewed by Angie Michaelis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number S00553
Collection type Sound
Measurement 2 hr
Object type Oral history
Physical description audio cassette; TDK D60; two track mono
Date made 20 March 1989
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Source credit to The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the war of 1939-45
Description

Discussing joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment; training; assignment to the 2/5th Australian General Hospital; change to AAMWS; nursing in New Guinea; contact with American servicemen in Papua New Guinea; nursing POWs; uniforms; working conditions; use of drugs for skin diseases; leisure.