The Other Anzacs (31 page)

Nurses endured primitive conditions, as shown by this photo of a group hand washing clothes in tubs outside their tent quarters at the 60th General Hospital, Hortiach, near Salonika. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial C04337)

Lottie Le Gallais and her ship-board orderlies. In the face of daily despair, they managed smiles on this occasion. (Photo courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum, PH95-2)

Sister May Tilton served in Egypt and then in France. Her experiences on the Western Front left her physically and emotionally battered. (Photo courtesy of Judy Dyer)

Lieutenant Harry Moffitt returned from Gallipoli like many of his fellow Anzacs suffering from dysentery and jaundice. Alice Ross King watched over his recuperation, the couple taking day trips from Cairo as they waited to be sent to France. (Photo courtesy of Marion Sanders)

Elsie Cook tends the head wound her husband Syd received at Gallipoli. (Photo courtesy of Hartley Cook)

Elsie and Syd Cook, his head still bandaged from the gunshot wound that would leave a permanent groove on his scalp. (Photo courtesy of Hartley Cook)

Kath King (right) and her sister Wynne (centre) aboard the troop ship
Euripidies
returning to Egypt in May 1916. The inscription on the back reads: ‘This will remind you of your two daughters. It is so nice to be together. Only hope we will continue. Sister Brown is the other sister with us. Love Wynne 15.5.16. Have not heard from Tom yet’. (Photo courtesy of John Carter)

Nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service share a meal with wounded Australian soldiers aboard the Australian hospital ship
Karoola
while returning to Australia. Nearly all of the men have eye or faciomaxillary injuries. Sister Elsie Eglinton made one such trip on the
Karoola
before returning to the war. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P01667.002)

The demands of nursing the wounded did not end once soldiers were evacuated back to Australia. Here a patient is being carried to the operating theatre aboard the Australian hospital ship
Karoola
. (Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial H15309)

Nurses from No. 2 Australian General Hospital at the Cairo railway station waiting to leave for Alexandria on their way to France. They travelled with very little luggage. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P00156.043)

Nurses of No. 3 Australian General Hospital behind their matron, Grace Wilson, and second in command of the hospital, Lieutenant Colonel J.A. Dick, ready to follow a piper into their camp at Mudros West, Lemnos. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial A04118)

Inside the laboratory on Lemnos, the Aegean island just five hours by sea from Gallipoli, where conditions were among the worst endured by nurses during the war. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Young)