The Other Anzacs (57 page)

Christchurch

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

28

ISDELL, Helena Kathleen, Staff Nurse*

Kumara

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

JAMIESON, Mabel Elizabeth, Staff Nurse*

Palmerston North

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

KEMP, Dorothy, QAIMNS

LIND, Lily, French Flag Nursing Corps

Pulmonary tuberculosis, Dec. 1916

Buried at sea

RAE, Mary Helen, Staff Nurse*

Dunedin

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

36

RATTRAY, Lorna Aylmer, Staff Nurse*

Christchurch

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

ROGERS, Margaret, Staff Nurse*

Christchurch

Drowned, 23 Oct. 1915

Mikra Memorial, Greece

THOMPSON, Margaret Hepple, Staff Nurse

Dunedin

TB, 28 Feb. 1921

Christchurch

35

TUBMAN, Esther Maude, Staff Nurse

Dunedin

Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Salisbury Hospital UK, 18 Sept. 1918

Tidworth Military Cemetery, Wiltshire, England

31

WHISHAW, Mabel, Sister

Wellington

Influenza, Featherston Camp, 10 Nov. 1918

Featherston Cemetery

*Sisters lost from the
Marquette

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

1. Sherayl Kendall and David Corbett,
New Zealand Military Nursing
, self-published, Auckland, 1990, p. 21.

2. Dr Kirsty Harris,
Sabretache
, Vol. 49 no. 1, March 2008.

3. Sherayl McNabb (nee Kendall), private correspondence.

4. Opinion of Crown Solicitor 1932, Australian War Memorial file 734/1/- and 826/1/7.

5. A First World War Nurse
, A War Nurse’s Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital
, Macmillan, N.Y. 1918.

6.
Australasian Nurses’ Journal
, 15 December 1914.

7. The
Burrowa News
, 22 January 1915, National Library of Australia.

8. Gertrude Doherty, quoted in Ruth Rae, ‘Operating in the Theatre of World War I: France’
, Acorn
, Vol. 17 no. 2, 2004.

9. Sister Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account of the conditions of nursing in an Australian CCS, Australian War Memorial.

10. Elsie Eglinton, letter, 2 July 1916, Australian War memorial.

CHAPTER 1  THE BIG ADVENTURE

1. Elsie Eglinton, 16 January 1915 (incorrectly dated 6 January).

2. Elsie Eglinton, 16 January 1915.

3. Elsie Cook, diary, 13 January 1915, Australian War Memorial.

4. Elsie Cook, 15 January 1915.

5. Elsie Cook, 16 January 1915.

6. Nellie Crommelin, letter, 20 August 1916, Australian War Memorial.

7. Kath King, diary, 25 November 1914, Australian War Memorial.

8. Elsie Cook, 5 December 1914.

9. Elsie Eglinton, 27 November 1914.

10. Margaret Young, ed.
We are Here, Too: Diaries and Letters of Sister Olive L. C. Haynes
, Australian Down Syndrome Association, SA, 1991; 26 November 1914, p. 13.

11. Elsie Eglinton, 4 December 1914.

12. Elsie Eglinton, 10 December 1914.

13. Elsie Cook, 7 December 1914.

14. Elsie Cook, 9 December 1914.

15. Elsie Cook, 31 December 1914–1 January 1915.

16. Letter to
Kai Tiaki
, April 1915.

17.
Kai Tiaki
, April 1915.

18.
Kai Tiaki
, April 1915.

CHAPTER 2 RELATIVE RELATIONS

1. Because there was another Alice King from Tasmania in the AANS, the Army included her second Christian name, Ross.

2. Daisy Richmond, diary, 20 January 1915, Australian War Memorial.

3. Narrative of an anonymous sister, AWM 41, Australian War Memorial.

4. Alice Ross King, diary, 22 January 1915, Australian War Memorial.

5. Kath King, 28 January 1915.

6. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., p. 30.

7. Kath King, 30 January 1915.

8. H.G. Carter, letter, 31 January 1915, Australian War Memorial.

9. Kath King, 3 February 1915.

10. Elsie Cook, 20 January 1915.

11. Elsie Cook, 13 February 1915.

12. Elsie Cook, 22 February 1915.

13. Elsie Cook, 1 February 1915.

CHAPTER 3 DIFFERENT RULES

1. Alice Ross King, 15 March 1915.

2. Kath King, 26 March 1915.

3. Alice Ross King, 25 March 1915.

4. Alice Ross King, 24 April 1915.

5. Alice Ross King, 10 March 1915.

6. Alice Ross King, 1915, no date.

7. Alice Ross King, 2 February 1915.

8. Alice Ross King, 30 January, 1915.

9. Alice Ross King, 1 February 1915.

10. Alice Ross King, 6 February 1915.

11. Alice Ross King, 7 February 1915.

12. Alice Ross King, 19 February 1915.

13. Alice Ross King, 20 February 1915.

14. Alice Ross King, 24 February 1915.

15. Alice Ross King, 2 March 1915.

16. Alice Ross King, 13 March 1915.

17. Alice Ross King, 8 April 1915.

18. Alice Ross King, 10 April 1915.

19. Alice Ross King, 7 March 1915.

CHAPTER 4 THE PRELUDE

1. Elsie Cook, 19 March 1915.

2. A.B. Facey,
A Fortunate Life
, Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, 1981, p. 248.

3. A.G. Butler,
Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918
, vol. 1, p. 76. Australian War Memorial, Melbourne, 1938.

4. Letter, 27 December 1914, quoted in
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt
, James Barrett and Lieut. P.E. Deane, M.K. Lewis and Co., London, 1918, pp. 117–18.

5. Elsie Eglinton, 8 February 1915.

6. Evelyn Davies, diary, 10 April 1916, Australian War Memorial.

7. Alice Ross King, 1 March 1915.

8. Alice Ross King, 7 March 1915.

9. Daisy Richmond, 2 April 1915 (incorrectly dated 1 April).

10. Alice Ross King, 2 April 1915.

11. Alice Ross King, 3 April 1915.

12. Alice Ross King, 4 April 1915.

13. Elsie Cook, 3 April 1915.

14. Alice Ross King, 18 April 1915.

15. Alice Ross King, 24 April 1915.

16. Alice Ross King, 25 April 1915.

CHAPTER 5 GALLIPOLI

1. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Hobart
Mercury
, 8 May 1915.

2. H.G. Carter, diary, Carter family.

3. Kath King, 25 April, 1915.

4. Kath King, 25 April, 1915.

5. Daisy Richmond, quoted in the
Auckland Star
. Undated article published June 1964 after she was awarded the MBE for service to the community.

6. George Mackay, statement, Australian War Memorial.

7. Kath King, 26 April, 1915.

8. Kath King, 27 April, 1915.

9. Kath King, 28 April, 1915.

10. Hester Maclean,
Nursing in New Zealand
, Tolan Printing Company, Wellington, 1932, p. 157.

11. Kath King, 28 April, 1915.

12. J.E.F. Deakin, ‘Some experiences with the No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital’,
Medical Journal of Australia
, 27 January 1917, p. 77.

13. J.E.F. Deakin, ‘Some experiences . . .’

14. J.E.F. Deakin, ‘Some experiences . . .’

CHAPTER 6 BLOODED

1. Kath King, 29 April to 5 May, 1915.

2. Narrative of an anonymous sister, Australian War Memorial, 41.

3. Elsie Eglinton, 2 May 1915.

4. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 30 April 1915, p. 39.

5. Sister Emma Cuthbert, quoted in Ruth Rae,
Scarlet Poppies
, College of Nursing, Burwood, NSW, 2004.

6. Sister Emma Cuthbert, in
Scarlet Poppies
.

7. Quoted in Patsy Adam-Smith,
The Anzacs
, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1978, p. 76.

8. Quoted in Patsy Adam-Smith,
The Anzacs
.

9. Daisy Richmond, 4 May 1915.

10. Daisy Richmond, 6 May 1915.

11. Alice Ross King, 8 May 1915.

CHAPTER 7 NOT MUCH COMFORT TO A MOTHER

1. Gordon Carter, letter 30 April 1915. Held by Carter Family.

2. Kath King, 5 May 1915.

3. Elsie Cook, 29 April 1915.

4. Elsie Cook, 30 April 1915.

5. Elsie Cook, 1 May 1915.

6. Elsie Cook, 1 May 1915.

7. Elsie Cook, 7 May 1915.

8. Elsie Cook, 7 May 1915.

9. Elsie Cook, 13 May 1915.

10. Elsie Cook, 3 May 1915.

11. Kath King, 13 May 1915.

12. Daisy Richmond, 16 May, 1915.

13. Kath King, 14 May 1915.

14. Kath King, 20 May 1915.

15. Kath King, 21 May 1915.

16. Kath King, 23 May 1915.

17. Daisy Richmond, 25 May 1915.

18. Ion Idriess,
The Desert Column
, Angus & Robertson, 1985, p. 27.