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What are the experiences of women at Gallipoli - comment on the primary sources:
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/5environment/nurses.html
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Letters from the Ladies
One nurse, Sister Narrelle Hobbs, was with Australian forces at Gallipoli. She wrote:
I’ve been a soldier now for nearly three years, and please God I will go right to the end ... if anything happened, and I too passed out, well, there would be no finer way, and no way in which I would be happier, than to lay down one’s life for the men who have given everything.
She died five months later, in May 1918.
Another nurse, Gertrude Doherty, from WA, wrote to her cousin Muriel in Sydney:
We look forward to our letters on mail day. Of course we can never make our letters sound as cheerful as yours. I am sure you will understand why when I tell you that we are surrounded by sadness and sorrow all the time ... do you know, Muriel, that as many as 72 operations have been performed in one day in our hospital alone ... you could not imagine how dirty the poor beggars are, never able to get a wash, mud and dirt ground in and nearly all of them alive with vermin. They feel ashamed being so dirty, we always tell them that if they came down any cleaner we would not think they had been in it at all.
A group of Australian nurses sailed for France in 1916, organised by the Australian Red Cross and financed by the Australian Jockey Club. Their blue uniforms were made by department store David Jones, hence their name The Bluebirds. They were, they said, "gifts to France".
Comment on the effectiveness of these two sources in their expression of the experiences of women during WWI.
I’ve been a soldier now for nearly three years, and please God I will go right to the end ... if anything happened, and I too passed out, well, there would be no finer way, and no way in which I would be happier, than to lay down one’s life for the men who have given everything.
She died five months later, in May 1918.
Another nurse, Gertrude Doherty, from WA, wrote to her cousin Muriel in Sydney:
We look forward to our letters on mail day. Of course we can never make our letters sound as cheerful as yours. I am sure you will understand why when I tell you that we are surrounded by sadness and sorrow all the time ... do you know, Muriel, that as many as 72 operations have been performed in one day in our hospital alone ... you could not imagine how dirty the poor beggars are, never able to get a wash, mud and dirt ground in and nearly all of them alive with vermin. They feel ashamed being so dirty, we always tell them that if they came down any cleaner we would not think they had been in it at all.
A group of Australian nurses sailed for France in 1916, organised by the Australian Red Cross and financed by the Australian Jockey Club. Their blue uniforms were made by department store David Jones, hence their name The Bluebirds. They were, they said, "gifts to France".
Comment on the effectiveness of these two sources in their expression of the experiences of women during WWI.
Role in Recruitment
Comment on the significance of women for the recruitment campaigns. How effective is this poster?
The Blood Vote
How effective is this recruitment poster for expressing the position of women in the conscription debate? What techniques are used?
Whose Son Are You?
Assess the usefulness of this source for the purpose of recruitment. How significant was the role of women for the campaign?
White Feather Shame
They passed out white feathers to such a degree that every white chook in Australia must have trembled with the cold...a few women concentrated on sending the feathers through the post; others, more honest, handed them to their victims and...often they made the mistake of handing a white feather to a young, fit-looking man in the streets only to learn that he was a hero, discharged with wounds too severe for him to be used again in battle.
~Patsy Adam Smith, Australian Women At War (1984)
What is the perspective of this source? How is the source reflecting the experiences of Australian women during WWI?
~Patsy Adam Smith, Australian Women At War (1984)
What is the perspective of this source? How is the source reflecting the experiences of Australian women during WWI?
Australian Nurses
http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww1/overview/nurses.html
This source recognises the significant contribution of Australian nurses to the war effort. Consider the use of primary sources in providing information about the experiences encountered and comment.
This source recognises the significant contribution of Australian nurses to the war effort. Consider the use of primary sources in providing information about the experiences encountered and comment.
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