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The Graveyards of Gallipoli; A Digger History Associate Site |
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A Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 |
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Australian Army Nursing Service at Gallipoli |
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MOTHER ANZAC. She drank her scotch straight, ("scotch is for drinking, not bathing in" she would say), she did her talking the same way, played poker to beat the boys and ran ballroom functions in Brisbane that were attended by the high and mighty. She grew up in gold mining towns, was widowed in 1891 with 3 little kids to raise but in the great flood of 1893 she climbed into a boat and went to rescue stranded families. She did a tour of duty with the AIF after enlisting at age 57 (she 'forgot' 10 years of her age on her papers) and she signed up for another. She worked with the Maoris in NZ after she contracted diabetes, was buried with full Maori tribal honours and along the way she revolutionised the AIF attitude to massage (now called physiotherapy). |
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They called her Mother ANZAC but who was she ? She was Staff Nurse Esther Barnett. She enlisted on August 18, 1915 when the terrible cost of Gallipoli was starting to be realised. Born 1857, she was 57 when she enlisted but she 'forgot' a few years. 3 days after enlisting the qualified masseuse who had worked in London hospitals, was on her way. She and the other 17 male and female practitioners of the art of medical massage were on their way to Egypt. They worked on up to 40 cases per day in a field that was only just starting to be recognised by military authorities. Many patients, particularly shell shocked ones in total or near total paralysis responded well and quickly. Shell shock was likened by many to fear or cowardice but is now recognised as PTSD. She came home in 1917 and worked with the Matron at the 6th Australian General Hospital but duty called and she returned overseas in June of 1918. Illness stopped her getting there and she disembarked in Wellington NZ. After release from hospital she worked amongst the Maori tribes until her death in 1921. |
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Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and Hospital Ships,
Anzac Cove and Lemnos Island. Nurses served on the hospital ships and at the 3rd Australian General Hospital on Lemnos. 25 nurses sailed with the 1st Convoy, 126 nurses with the 2nd Convoy etc. Doctors served as officers in the Field Ambulance units and as medical officers in each battalion. |
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Royal
Red Cross. (RRC).
Awarded to Matron Alice Mary Cooper, of New South Wales, who enlisted
with the Australian Army Nursing Service on 12 June 1915, aged 50.
Matron Cooper served on the Hospital Ship 'Karoola' and was awarded the Royal Red Cross, Second Class in February 1917 and the Royal Red Cross, First Class in April 1920. On her return Matron Cooper served at Randwick Military Hospital and was present there for the visit of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales in 1920. |
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Associate Royal Red Cross. (ARRC). Awarded to Head Sister Emma Argyle Cuthbert at Buckingham Palace on 1 March 1919. Sister Cuthbert joined the Australian Army Nursing Service at its inauguration in 1902. She embarked for First World War service on 5 December 1914 with 1 Australian General Hospital. Sailing aboard the 'Kyarra' the unit arrived in Cairo in January 1915 and opened the hospital at Heliopolis. Sister Cuthbert was involved in treating the first casualties from Gallipoli and accompanied 900 wounded back to Australia in August 1915. She returned to 1 AGH in Cairo aboard the same vessel. In March 1916 the unit left Egypt and arrived at Marseilles on 5 April 1916. She served until the Armistice. |
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Egypt. c. 1915. Elevated view of
approximately fifteen tents in the grounds of Heliopolis Palace occupied
by No. 1 Australian General Hospital (1AGH).
The tents were erected all around the grounds as space inside the building became scarce. They are dwarfed by a multi-storey building across the street from the gardens. |
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| The original caption, by 8932 Driver Jack (John) McKenzie, 20th Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), reads `A building in Heliopolis facing the Palace hospital. It was taken by my friend Wallace (8990 Private Arthur Wallace, 20th AASC) while visiting the dentist in the hospital. The tents are in the hospital grounds. Our camp is only a mile away directly behind the building.' (Donor P. Emery) | |
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Alexandria, Egypt.
1915.
Army patients from Gallipoli being transferred from Hospital Ship Gascon to a hospital train for movement to Cairo. (Donor Sister A. Twynam) |
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Alexandria, Egypt. c. 1915. A fleet of ambulance vehicles waiting to transfer wounded soldiers to hospital after they were transferred from a ship moored at the wharf. AWM H00817 |
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Anzac
Beach, (North Beach) Gallipoli. 1915-08.
Wounded Australian soldiers being loaded on to life boats to be taken to a hospital ship following their unit's advance action on 1915-08-08. (Donor J.P. Campbell) |
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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. Field surgery in the Dardanelles. A field hospital of the 42nd East Lancashire Territorials, at work behind the firing line. The operating surgeon is removing a bullet from the arm of a soldier. |
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Island of Imbros, Greece. August 1915. General view of the Casualty Clearing Station (Emergency Hospital) seen from an aeroplane. |
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Mena, Egypt. 1915. An ambulance outside Mena House, occupied at the time by 2nd Australian General Hospital. Donor D. Mellor. |
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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 18 Dec 1915. In order to deceive the Turks at the evacuation, all hospital tents were left standing exactly as usual, but all equipment was removed except from two of them in case of casualties. These were the 14th Casualty Clearing, and the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing. |
