The Other Anzacs (60 page)

23. Annie Shadforth, statement to assistant collator, Ryan family records.

24. Alice Ross King, 3 July 1916.

25. Alice Ross King, 6 July 1916.

26. Alice Ross King, 9 July 1916.

27. Alice Ross King, 11 July 1916.

28. Alice Ross King, 12 July 1916.

29. Alice Ross King, 14 July 1916.

30. Alice Ross King, 17 July 1916.

CHAPTER 20 HARRY’S LETTER

1. Ross McMullin ‘Disaster at Fromelles’,
Wartime
, Issue 36, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2006.

2. W.H. ‘Jimmy’ Downing, quoted in McMullin ‘Distaster at Fermelles’

3. W.H. ‘Jimmy’ Downing, quoted in McMullin ‘Distaster at Fermelles’.

4. C.E.W. Bean,
Official History of Australia in the War, Vol. III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916
, 12th edition, 1941, p. 437.

5. Robin Corfield,
Don’t Forget Me Cobber
, Corfield & Company, Rossana, Victoria, 2000, p. 260.

6. Les Carlyon,
The Great War
, pp. 50–1.

7. Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914–18 war, item Number 1/50/5/part 3, Australian War Memorial.

8. Yvonne McEwen,
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
, Cualann Press, Dunfermline, 2006, p. 131.

9.
Canberra Times
, 13 March 2005.

10. Robin Corfield,
Don’t Forget Me Cobber
, p. 147.

11. Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files, 1914–18 War, 1 DRL/0428, Australian War Memorial.

12. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

13. Letter held by Marion Sanders.

14. Alice Ross King, 4 August 1916.

15. Alice Ross King, 12 August 1916.

16. Alice Ross King, 23 August 1916.

CHAPTER 21 GRASPING FOR HOPE

1. Alice Ross King, 20 August 1916.

2. Alice Ross King, 6 September 1916.

3. Alice Ross King, 13 August 1916.

4. Alice Ross King, 14 August 1916.

5. Alice Ross King, 24 September 1916.

6. Alice Ross King, 25 September 1916.

7. Alice Ross King, 25 September 1916.

8. Alice Ross King, 26 September 1916.

9. Alice Ross King, 29 September 1916.

10. Alice Ross King, 2 October 1916.

11. Alice Ross King, 3 October 1916.

12. Alice Ross King, 5 October 1916.

13. Alice Ross King, 7 October 1916.

14. Alice Ross King, 10 October 1916.

15. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

16. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

17. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

18. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

19. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

20. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 25 August 1916, p. 159.

21. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 29 August 1916, p. 161.

22. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 12 September 1916, p. 164.

23. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 26 September 1916, p. 165.

24. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 5 August 1916, p. 158.

25. Ida Willis,
A Nurse Remembers
, p. 39.

26. Matron Mary Finlay, quoted in Rupert Goodman,
Our War Nurses
, p. 60.

27. Ida Willis,
A Nurse Remembers
, pp. 38–9.

28.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1917.

CHAPTER 22 THE CHILL OF WAR

1. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

2. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

3. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

4. Alice Ross King, 21 January 1917.

5. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

6. Alice Ross King, 21 January 1917.

7. Australian Red Cross Society . . .

8. Alice Ross King, 15 February 1917.

9. Alice Ross King, 15 February 1917.

10. Alice Ross King, 29 March 1917.

11.
Kai Tiaki
, July 1917, pp. 133–4.

12. Lyn MacDonald,
The Roses of No Man’s Land
, Penguin, London, 1980, p. 83.

13. Pearl Corkhill, 24 November 1916.

14. Alice Ross King, 23 January 1917.

15. Elsie Eglinton, 29 November 1916.

16. Elsie Eglinton, 4 January 1917.

17. Elsie Eglinton, 14 January 1917.

18. Olive Haynes in
We are Here
. . ., 15 January 1917, p. 182.

19. Elsie Eglinton, 8 February 1917.

20.
M.O., Church of England Messenger
, 4 April 1919, p. 790.

21. Gordon Carter, 17 February 1917.

CHAPTER 23 NO PLACE TO HIDE

1.
UNA
, Journal of the Victorian Collage of Nursing, 30 October 1917, p. 244.

2. Elsie Eglinton, 17 March 1917.

3. Ida Willis,
A Nurse Remembers
, p. 40.

4. Elsie May Tranter, diary, 17 August 1916, Australian War Memorial.

5. Elsie May Tranter, 2 March 1917.

6. Elsie May Tranter, 5 March 1917.

7.
The Leader
, Melbourne, 2 May 1931.

8. Ida Willis,
A Nurse Remembers
, pp. 39–40.

9. Elsie May Tranter, 2 May 1917.

10. Elsie May Tranter, 5 May 1917.

11. Elsie May Tranter, 12 May 1917.

12. Elsie May Tranter, 3 April 1917.

13. Elsie May Tranter, 3 April 1917.

14. Elsie May Tranter, 4 April 1917.

15. Elsie May Tranter, 2 May 1917.

16. Elsie May Tranter, 5 May 1917.

17. Gordon Carter, 2 June 1918.

18. Report by Miss Wilson, 22 May 1933, Australian War Memorial.

19. Ada Smith quoted in Ruth Rae,
Operating in the Theatre of World War I
.

20. Ada Smith quoted in Ruth Rae,
Operating in the Theatre of World War I
.

21. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 5 July 1917, p. 169.

22. Gertrude Doherty, letter, 15 July 1917, Australian War Memorial.

23. Elsie May Tranter, 19 June 1917.

24. Elsie May Tranter, 24 June 1917.

CHAPTER 24 BOMBS AND BASINS

1. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive narrative account . . .

2. Alice Ross King, undated entry.

3. Alice Ross King, 25 July 1917.

4.
UNA
, Melbourne, 30 October 1917.

5. Letter held by Marion Sanders.

6. Alice Ross King, 4 August 1917.

7. Alice Ross King, 9 August 1917.

8.
British Journal of Nursing
, 2 February 1918.

9. Rupert Goodman,
Our War Nurses
, p. 67.

10. Rachael Pratt, National Archives of Australia, barcode 8018638, series no. B2455.

11. Ida O’Dwyer, A descriptive account . . .

12. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 21 August 1917, p. 235.

13. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 21 August 1917, p. 235.

14. G.C. Munschamp, letter,
UNA
, 30 November 1917, vol. 15, no. 9, p. 277.

15. G.C. Munschamp, letter.

CHAPTER 25 DESOLATION

1. Alice Ross King, 27 August 1917.

2. Alice Ross King, 4 August 1917.

3. Alice Ross King, 4 August 1917.

4. Alice Ross King, undated.

5. Alice Ross King, 10 December 1917.

6. Elsie Eglinton, 19 October 1915.

7. Elsie Eglinton, 9 November 1916.

8. Letter, Ernest Hewish, quoted by Elsie Eglinton, 29 June 1917.

9. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 25 August 1917.

10. Elsie Grant letter, 23 August 1917, Australian War Memorial.

11. Letter to Elsie Grant, 20 October 1917, Australian War Memorial.

12. Annie Shadforth, statement.

13. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 4 October 1917.

14. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 25 August 1917.

15. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, 1 November 1917.

CHAPTER 26 SURVIVAL

1. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 19 July 1917, p. 154.

2. Ida O’Dwyer, letter to mother of Pte D.B. Nicol, 16 October 1917, Australian War Memorial.

3. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 5 July 1917, p. 170.

4. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 1 May 1918, p. 218.

5. Evelyn Davies, 8 March 1917.

6. Report by Grace Wilson.

7. Anna Rogers,
While You’re Away
, p. 152.

8. Anna Rogers,
While You’re Away
, p. 152.

9. Elsie Tranter, 17 November 1917.

10. Elsie Tranter, 1 August 1917.

11. Elsie Tranter, 2 March 1917.

12. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, no date, p. 177.

13. Elsie Eglinton, 22 May 1916.