Download or read book Australian Doctors on the Western Front written by Robert Likeman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account ofthe carnage on the Western Front from 1916-1918. This is the third volume in the series 'Doctors at War' written by Colonel RobertLikeman CSM, recently retired from the post of Director of Army Health in Canberra. Vols 1 and 2 were published by Slouch Hat Publications in 2010 and 2012. Likeman provides mini biographies of each of the 600+ Australian doctors, and the Australian Army Medical Corps units and hospitals, which served on the Western Front and in the training establishments in the UK. Each officer's medical qualifications are listed, along with any honoursand awards,
Download or read book Australian Doctors on the Western Front written by Robert Likeman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the carnage on the Western Front from 1916–1918. This is the third volume in the series 'Doctors at War' written by Colonel Robert Likeman CSM, recently retired from the post of Director of Army Health in Canberra. Vols 1 and 2 were published by Slouch Hat Publications in 2010 and 2012. Likeman provides mini biographies of each of the 600+ Australian doctors,and the Australian Army Medical Corps units and hospitals, which served on the Western Front and in the training establishments in the UK. Each officer's medical qualifications are listed, along with any honours and awards, and numerous photographs.
Download or read book Women to the Front written by Heather Sheard and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undaunted, at least twenty-four Australian women doctors ignored official military policy and headed to the frontlines. This book explores the stories of the Australian women who served as surgeons, pathologists, anaesthetists and medical officers between 1914 and 1919. Despite saving hundreds of lives, their experiences are almost totally absent from official military records, both in Australia and Great Britain, and their achievements have remained invisible for over a century. Until now. Heather Sheard and Ruth Lee have compiled a fascinating and meticulously researched account of the Great War, seen through the eyes of these women and their essential work. From the Eastern to the Western Fronts, to Malta, and to London, we bear witness to the terrible conditions, the horrific injuries, the constant danger, and above all, the skill and courage displayed by this group of remarkable Australians. Women to the Front is a war story unlike any other.
Download or read book THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES 1914 1918 written by A G Butler and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of the Australian Medical Service in the Gallipoli and Eastern theatres of war were covered in Volume I. Its activities with the infantry in the Western theatre during 1916, 1917 and 1918 are covered in the present work.
Download or read book The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914 1918 written by Arthur Graham Butler and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compassion and Courage written by Jacqueline Healy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expertise Authority and Control written by Alexia Moncrieff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corp in over seventy years. It examines the provision of medical care to Australian soldiers during the Dardanelles campaign and explores the imperial and medical-military hierarchies that were blended and challenged during the campaign. By the end of 1918, the AAMC was a radically different organisation. Using army orders, unit war diaries and memoranda written to disseminate information within the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and between British and Australian soldiers, it maps the provision of medical care through casualty clearance and evacuation, rehabilitation, and the prevention and treatment of venereal disease. In doing so, she reassesses Australian military medicine and maps the transition to an infrastructure for the AIF in the field, especially in response to conflicts with traditional imperial, military and medical hierarchies.
Download or read book Lord Kitchener s One Hundred World War 1 Surgeons written by Lina Moffitt and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University graduates thrown into the deep end of emergency trauma, these 100 young men answered Lord Kitchener's call in early 1915 to come to England and enlist in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). Kitchener and Churchill were planning the Gallipoli landings using mainly Australian soldiers and knew that having Australian doctors would boost morale. They were also needed at the Western Front and throughout every theatre of WW1. Some were killed, most returned home and set up their own practices, living long and full lives. Others were foundation members of the RACP and RACS. They all had interesting stories and many were from prominent pioneering families. They fell in love with nurses, some married overseas, most had children and grandchildren who became doctors. It is a gripping multi-generational saga.
Download or read book Not for Glory written by Susan J. Neuhaus and published by Susan J Neuhaus. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the trenches of the Western Front to the ricefields and jungles of South-east Asia, Australian women have served as doctors and medical specialists from World War I until the present day. This book tells their stories of adventure, courage, sacrifice and determination as they fought to serve their country ... and won. An uplifting account of service beyond self, of the service of individual courageous doctors who experienced challenges and met these beyond the normal call of duty ... an account of proud women doing their duty individually as members, male or female, or what some call 'the caring corps of combat'. - Major General John Pearn (former Surgeon-General, Australian Defence Force) Not For Glory has done a magnificent job in reminding us that bravery, skill and compassion exist not only in the history books, but also in the current generation of female medical professionals who serve Australia here at home and wherever our soldiers deploy. - Lieutenant General David Morrison (Chief of Army, Australian Defence Force) Learn more about past and present Australian Women at War at: australianwomenatwar.com.au
Download or read book Victoria Crosses on the Western Front written by Paul Oldfield and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated WWI battlefield guide explores the heroic acts honored with Victoria Crosses—and the sites where they took place—in 1918 France. Historian and battlefield tour guide Paul Oldenfield spent years researching the Victoria Cross actions of the First World War and accurately locating where each event took place. He now shares his remarkable findings with battlefield visitors and armchair historians in this fascinating series of guidebooks. This volume in the Victoria Crosses on the Western Front series covers the first Battles of the Somme in 1918, the Battle of the Lys, and other combat operation in western France. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants, while photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. Oldfield also includes a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering their families, education, civilian employment, military career, death, and commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.
Download or read book A Doctor on the Western Front written by John Hutton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Owens Great War diary provides a vivid and complete narrative, seen from the perspective of an army doctor, of what it was like to live and fight in the trenches of the Western Front. Owens, a member of the original British expeditionary Force, the Old Contemptibles, was among the first British soldiers to set foot in France. He spent the next four years in the front line as a doctor and a diarist, an eyewitness to some of the most bitter and violent struggles of the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. His writing, edited and with a full introduction by John Hutton, gives us an inside view of the duties and experiences of a doctor tending the fighting troops, and it paints a graphic portrait of the daily lives of the men themselves. Henry Owens was born into a doctors family in Long Stratton, Norfolk in 1889. When war was declared in 1914, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He served as a front-line medical officer throughout the conflict and he kept a diary and notes. After the war he used this material to assemble this meticulous account of his experiences. After being demobilized in 1919 he returned to civilian medical practice and married, but he died after a sudden illness in 1921, aged just 31. After the death of his wife in 1980, the diary came into the possession of the Imperial War Museum.
Download or read book The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914 1918 written by Arthur Graham Butler and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Women and War written by Melanie Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourced from Oppenheimer's own research and archival material from the Australian War Memorial, Australian Red Cross archives and State Libraries, Australian Women and War contains accounts of women such as Nursing Sister Nellie Gould in the Boer War and Angela Rhodes, the first Australian Military female air traffic controller to serve in Baghdad during the second Gulf War. The book also contains little known accounts of women such as Nurse Ethel Gillingham, one of the only Australian women to be a POW in WWI, and the group of Australian teachers sent to South Africa during the Boer War to work in the internment (concentration) camps.
Download or read book The Daughters of Mars written by Thomas Keneally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is perhaps “the best novel of his career” (The Spectator), the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List tells the unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first world war. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father’s farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Amid the carnage, the sisters’ tenuous bond strengthens as they bravely face extreme danger and hostility—sometimes from their own side. There is great humor and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the incredible women they serve alongside. In France, each meets an exceptional man, the kind for whom she might relinquish her newfound independence—if only they all survive. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars is a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad.
Download or read book A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front written by Olive Dent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starring Oona Chaplin as a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and Suranne Jones and Hermione Norris as trained nurses, The Crimson Field is a gripping drama set in a tented hospital on the coast of France, where plucky real-life V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the Great War, and kept this extraordinarily vivid diary of day-to-day life – ever cheerful through the bitter cold, the chilblains, hunger and exhaustion. Resilient, courageous and resourceful, nurses, doctors and patients alike do their best to support each other. A Christmas fancy-dress ball, a concert performed by a stoic orchestra covered in bandages, church services held in a marquee and letters from Blighty all keep spirits up in camp, as wounded soldiers suffer terribly with quiet dignity on the makeshift wards, and nurses rush round tirelessly to make them as comfortable as possible. With original illustrations throughout by fellow V.A.D.s, Olive’s memoir is a fascinating period piece, a rare first-hand account of this little-known story, which will resonate very strongly with viewers of The Crimson Field.
Download or read book The British Medical Officer on the Western Front written by Ian R. Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australians and the First World War written by Kate Ariotti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians’ engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts. This diverse and multifaceted collection includes chapters on the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial Force, the experiences of prisoners of war, nurses and Red Cross workers, the resonances of overseas events for Australians at home, and the cultural legacies of the war through remembrance and representation. The local-global framework provides a fresh lens through which to view Australian connections with the Great War, demonstrating that there is still much to be said about this cataclysmic event in modern history.
