Australian nurses (secondary)

This resource is for secondary students. Primary students will find resources here.

Australian nurses have been serving in war for over 100 years.  The Memorial is honouring their service in a special exhibition, Nurses: from Zululand to Afghanistan. From 16 February 2013 to 27 August 2015, the exhibition will be travelling
around Australia.

We have developed the following activities for Australian secondary school students in line with the themes of National curriculum in history.

Part 1: Curriculum and skills 

• Curriculum links: Years 9 & 10 (263.18 KB)
  (263Kb PDF file)
• Historical skills (209.22 KB)
  (209Kb PDF file)
• In the beginning: Florence Nightingale (271.83 KB)
  (271Kb PDF file)

Part 2: Boer War

• Introduction: the Boer War (381.16 KB)
  (381Kb PDF file)
• Conditions: Boer War (347.8Kb PDF file) (347.81 KB)
• Case study: “Bessie” Pocock (589.9Kb PDF file) (589.94 KB)

Part 3: First World War

• Introduction: the First World War (323Kb PDF file) (323.21 KB)
• Conditions: First World War (584.5Kb PDF file) (584.52 KB)
• Case study: Rachael Pratt MM (403Kb PDF file) (403.21 KB)

Part 4: Second World War

• Introduction: the Second World War (335Kb PDF file) (335.39 KB)
• Conditions: Second World War (542Kb PDF file) (542.42 KB)
• Case study: “Betty” Jeffrey (536Kb PDF file) (536.27 KB)

Part 5: Nurses activities

• Online activities (248.9Kb PDF file) (248.96 KB)
• Examine the source online activity (261.9Kb PDF file) (261.95 KB)
• “We were there too...” (508.3Kb PDF file) (508.37 KB)
• Recruitment and propaganda (537.1Kb PDF file) (537.15 KB)
• Nurses uniforms and activities (504Kb PDF file) (504.05 KB)
• Nurses in art (537.1Kb PDF file) (537.13 KB)
• Case study: Nora Heysen (302.4Kb PDF file) (302.47 KB)
• Nurses in poetry (370.1km PDF file) (370.15 KB)
• Service and sacrifice (248Kb PDF file) (248.03 KB)
• We will remember them (374.1Kb PDF file) (374.12 KB)
• Bibliography (262.2Kb PDF file) (262.28 KB)
• Glossary (315.9Kb PDF file) (315.99 KB)