The Other Anzacs (32 page)

Life on Lemnos was one of weather extremes. Here, Sister Evelyn (Tev) Davies looks ‘tragic’ in winter clothing. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial A05374)

While the weather was warm, sisters from No. 3 Australian General Hospital would take early morning dips in Mudros Harbour. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P01480.002)

There were also moments for socialising. Sisters from No. 3 Australian General Hospital with naval officers on the deck of a destroyer in Mudros Harbour. The privations experienced by nurses ashore weren’t shared by the British naval officers aboard ship. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P01480.001)

And there was time for romance on Lemnos. Sister Clarice Daley walks through an arch of drawn bayonets after her marriage to 1st Light Horse Sergeant Ernest Lawrence in 1915. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P01360.001)

Sisters from the 3rd Australian General Hospital on Lemnos with their patients. In summer, conditions were dusty and dry. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J01438)

The tent wards on Lemnos, which were impossible to keep warm in winter and sand- and dirt-free in summer, made for very difficult nursing. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J01446)

Sick Australian sisters convalescing along the tent lines of No. 3 Australian General Hospital at Mudros. Painted rocks mark the edge of the tent surrounds and hospital paths. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J01455)

Huddled against the elements, nurses from No. 3 Australian General Hospital, Lemnos, wait on a barge for their transfer to Egypt. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J01510)

LEFT : New Zealand Matron Marie Cameron survived the
Marquette
disaster, but was an invalid for the rest of her life. (Photo courtesy of Judy Bailey) RIGHT : New Zealand Sister Edith (Poppy) Popplewell, at the Walton-on-Thames Hospital, the No.2 New Zealand General Hospital. A survivor of the
Marquette
sinking, she clung to wreckage for several hours before being rescued. (Photo courtesy of Sherayl McNabb)

New Zealand nurses who survived the
Marquette
tragedy aboard the hospital ship
Grantully Castle
in Salonika. (Photo courtesy of Kippenberger Military Archive and Research Library)

The New Zealand nurses who died when the
Marquette
was torpedoed(from top left to right): Mary Gorman, Nora Hildyard, Mabel Jamieson, Mary Rae, Lorna Rattray, Margaret Rogers, Marion Brown, Helena Isdell, Catherine Fox, Isabel Clark. (Photos courtesy of Sherayl McNabb)

On their way to work in French hospitals, and accompanied by their French teacher, the twenty Australian Red Cross nurses known as the Bluebirds aboard No. 2 Australian hospital ship
Kanowna
. Included in the group were Elsie Cook (third row, third from the left), Hilda Loxton (third row, far right), Fraser Thompson (second row, second from the left) and Nellie Crommelin (front row left). (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P02628.001)

Sister Ada Smith of No.2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station stands at the entrance of the tent that was her home for some months at Trois Arbres, near Steenwerck. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P00156.058)