The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918

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'I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away ...''One of the men asked if Sister Campbell were here, to tell her about her brother being killed ...but she went on working ...'By the end of the Great War, 21 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery of the Western Front. They worked virtually around the clock to care for the rapidly mounting casualties. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients to tend on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare.Their strength and humanity was remarkable. First published Sept 2008 Australia hardcover

Author description

Peter Rees is a journalist. He worked in the Canberra Press Gallery for many years, before leaving to write books fulltime. He is author of â Killing Juanita, â The Boy from Boree Creek, the biography of Tim Fischer, and is co-author of â Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9781741755497
• Publisher : Allen & Unwin
• Imprint : Allen & Unwin
• Publication date : August 2008
• Dimensions : 234mm X 159mm X 40mm
• Produced in : Australia
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : Illustrations
• BIC subject : Australasian & Pacific history: First World War; Military history; Battles & campaigns; World history: First World War
• Pages : 387
• Dewey classification : 940.47594
• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Peter Rees