Robyn Siers
Robyn Siers, from the Australian War Memorial, curated the Nurses from Zululand to Afghanistan exhibition
View ArticleAir evacuation
Sister Elizabeth Bray and Sergeant Dawson, a nursing orderly, attending to patients on a flight between New Guinea and Australia, c.1944
View ArticleAvenge the Nurses
Since WW1, posters have been used to exploit tragic events to mobilise public sentiment, this one for the sinking of the Centaur, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943, killing 268, including 11...
View ArticleJean Miles Walker
Tasmanian born Matron Jean Miles Walker (front centre) with nursing staff at the 1st Australian Stationary Hospital at Ismailia, Egypt, 1916
View ArticleAtrium, QVMAG
The exhibition is currently on show in the atrium of the Invermay Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery building until 19 May
View ArticleThe Royal Red Cross
The Royal Red Cross was introduced in 1883 'for zeal and devotion in nursing sick and wounded sailors and soldiers', or for some exceptional act of bravery or devotion to the post of duty
View ArticleBoots, gloves and bomber jacket
Flying boots, gloves and jacket worn by Medivac nurse RAAFNS Patricia Furbank
View ArticleUniforms
Nurses during the First World War worked in convalescent hospitals in Britain and Australia, were easily recognised by their grey serge uniforms and scarlet capes
View ArticleIconic images
The exhibition reproduces some of the iconic type of images that have represented nurses in the armed forces
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