ANZAC day commemoration: Our Nurses

Ipswich Hospital Nurses Rose Langford (4) and Annie Scott (1) were among a group of Queensland Nurses who sailed as members of the Australian Army Nursing Service on the Kyarra to Egypt to nurse Gallipoli troops.  The Kyarra sailed from Brisbane on 21 November 1914.

Photo credit: Goodman, R., 1985, Queensland Nurses – Boer War to Vietnam, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane

Nurses about to embark on the H.S. Kyarra in Melbourne

Previous
Previous

Just a minute in 1865: Hospital Hygiene

Next
Next

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, lays Sunshine Ward foundation stone, 1934