The Other Anzacs (61 page)

14. Elsie Eglinton, 14 September 1916.

15. Elsie Eglinton, 28 September 1916.

16. Elsie Eglinton, 30 April 1918.

17. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 1 August 1917, p. 215.

18. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 24 July 1917, pp. 215–16.

19. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 9 August 1917, p. 223.

20. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 20 August 1917, p. 225.

21. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 22 August 1917, p. 226.

22. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 16 October 1917, p. 237.

CHAPTER 27 GIFTS FOR FRANCE

1. M. Oppenheimer, ‘Gifts for France: Australian Red Cross nurses in France, 1916–1919’,
Journal of Australian Studies
, no. 39 (Dec 1993), pp. 65–78.

2.
Kai Tiaki
, July 1916, p. 160.

3. Thompson family records, letter, 22 January 1916.

4. Elsie Cook, 12 September 1916.

5. Nellie Crommelin, letter, 6 October 1916, Australian War Memorial.

6. Nellie Crommelin, letter, 21 October 1916.

7. Elsie Cook, 15 February 1917.

8. Elsie Cook, 23 February 1917.

9. Elsie Cook, 6 March 1917.

10. Nellie Crommelin, letter, 26 October 1916.

11. Elsie Cook,
The Australasian Nurses’ Journal
, 15 September 1917.

12. Elsie Cook, 14 July 1917.

13. Elsie Cook, 31 July 1917.

14. Quoted in M. Oppenheimer, ‘Gifts from France . . .’ , p. 70.

15. Nellie Crommelin letter, 6 October 1916.

16. Elsie Cook, 25 August 1917.

17. Nellie Crommelin letter, 11 June 1917.

18. Elsie Cook, 12 December 1917.

19. Elsie Cook, 19 December 1917.

20. Elsie Cook, 23 December 1917.

21. Elsie Cook, 25 December 1917.

22. Elsie Cook, 27 December 1917.

23. Elsie Cook, 31 December 1917.

CHAPTER 28 CONSCRIPTION

1. Grace Wilson, 6 August 1915.

2. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 21 October 1916, p. 125.

3. Alice Ross King, 2 November 1916.

4. Evelyn Davies, 24 November 1916.

5. Narelle Hobbes, letter, 22 March 1917, Australian War Memorial.

6. Narelle Hobbes, 22 March 1917.

7. Laura Grubb, letter, 14 November 1917, Australian War Memorial.

8. Ada Willis, letter, 9 November 1917, Stibbs family records.

9. Ada Willis, 14 February 1918.

10. Elsie Eglinton, 25 December 1917.

11. May Tilton,
The Grey Battalion
, pp. 281–2.

12.
Nepean Times
, undated.

13. Melanie Oppenheimer,
Oceans of Love
, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006, pp. 253–6.

CHAPTER 29 IT’S SOMETHING BIG, SISTER

1. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 5 September 1917, pp. 192.

2. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 6 September 1917, pp. 195.

3. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 7 November 1917, pp. 205–6.

4. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 22 November 1917, pp. 208–9.

5. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 22 November 1917, p. 209.

6. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 8 February 1918, p. 215.

7. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 8 February 1918, p. 216.

8. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 31 December 1917, p. 226.

9. Alice Ross King, 5 August 1916.

10. Elsie Cook, 23 December 1916.

11.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919.

12. Nellie Crommelin letter, 22 March 1918.

13. Nellie Crommelin letter, 27 March 1918.

14. Lyn MacDonald,
The Roses of No Man’s Land
, p. 271.

15. Alice Ross King, undated entry.

16. Alice Ross King, undated entry.

17. A.G. Butler,
Official History . . .
, vol. 3, pp. 559–63. All following quotations from this citation.

18. Annie Shadforth, statement.

19. Elsie May Tranter, 1 April 1918.

20. Kirsty Harris, ‘Giving the dope: Australian Army nurse anaesthetists during World War I’,
Australian Military Medicine
, vol. 12, no. 3, December 2003.

21. Elsie May Tranter, 19 April 1918.

22. Evelyn Davies, 31 March 1918.

23. Evelyn Davies, 17 May 1918.

CHAPTER 30 THE STRUGGLE ENDS

1. Elsie Cook, 27 March 1918.

2. Nellie Crommelin, 3 April 1918.

3. Nellie Crommelin, 14 April 1918.

4. Elsie Cook, 16 April 1918.

5. Elsie Cook, 30 May 1918.

6. Nellie Crommelin letter, 1 June 1918.

7. Nellie Crommelin letter, 10 September 1918.

8. Elsie Cook, 14 June 1918.

9. Elsie Cook, 15 June 1918.

10. Elsie Cook, 12 July 1918.

11. Elsie Cook, 14 July 1918.

12. Elsie Cook, 16 July 1918.

13. Elsie Cook, 19 July 1918.

14. Pearl Corkhill, 8 April 1917.

15. Norm Hoyer, Private interview, 13 September 2004.

16. Private family records.

17. Pearl Corkhill, 29 July 1918.

18. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 9 May 1918, p. 249.

19. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 9 May 1918, p. 249.

20. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 5 November 1918, p. 241.

21. Anna Rogers,
While You’re Away
, p. 177.

22.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919, p. 15.

23.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919, p. 16.

24.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919.

CHAPTER 31 THE FIFTH NEW YEAR

1. Frances Laird, interview with Beth Robertson, J.D. Somerville oral history collection, Mortlock Library of South Australia.

2. Pte J. Hardie, letter, 30 October 1917, Australian War Memorial.

3. Elsie Cook, 3 September 1918.

4. Elsie Cook, 19 September 1918.

5. Elsie Cook, 29 October 1918.

6. Elsie Cook, 29 October 1918.

7. Elsie Cook, 11 November 1918.

8. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 11 November 1918, p. 272.

9. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 11 November 1918, pp. 272–3.

10. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 11 November 1918, p. 273.

11. Dora Birks, interview, oral evidence no. 36, December 1982, Mortlock Library of South Australia.

12. Elsie Tranter.

13.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919.

14.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919.

15. Anna Rogers,
While You’re Away
, p. 175.

16.
Kai Tiaki
, January 1919.

17. Annie Shadforth, statement.

18. Alice Ross King.

19. Ada Willis, 11 November 1918.

20. Elsie Cook, 29 December 1918.

CHAPTER 32 THE AFTERMATH

1. Yvonne McEwen, p. 188.

2. Dora Birks, interview.

3. Letter held by Ivon Teague, family of Gladys Metherell, Christchurch.

4. Melanie Oppenheimer, ‘Gifts for France: Australian Red Cross Nurses in France, 1916–1919’,
Journal of Australian Studies
, no. 39, December 1993, p. 76.

5. Letter, Elizabeth Rothery file, Australian National Archives.

6. John McQuilton, ‘Enlistment for the First World War in rural Australia: The case of north-eastern Victoria, 1914–1918’,
Journal of the AWM
, issue 33, 2000.

7. Evelyn Davies, undated, 1919.

8. Olive Haynes in
We are Here . . .
, 6 February 1918, p. 257.

9. Pearl Corkhill, 7 December 1918.

10. Kath King, 3 March 1920.

11. Elsie Eglinton, 20 June 1918.

12. Elsie Eglinton, 20 June 1918.

13. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 24 January 1919, p. 280.

14. Anne Donnell,
Letters of an Army Sister
, 25 January 1919, p. 280.

15. Personal communication with Des Ryan.

16. Alice Ross King, February 1919.

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