Alice Ross-King [electronic resource] : Australian Army Nursing Service AIF 1914 - 1919
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Alice Ross-King, just 27, already had nine years’ experience in nursing when she volunteeredfor the Australian Army Nursing Service on November 5, 1914.Alice sailed for Egypt with the 1 st Australian General Hospital (1AGH) and by April 28, 1915, was tending the first terribly wounded Anzacs from Gallipoli. She nursed troops being returned to Australia on the hospital ship Ballarat and in August headed back to Egypt on the Anchises – on which she met and fell in love with AIF Lieutenant Harry Moffitt.In early 1916 Alice and 1AGH moved to Rouen, France, and treated the overwhelming casualties from the Battle of the Somme. On July 19 Harry was killed at Fromelles.Heartbroken, Alice continued nursing. In July 1917, at No.2 Casualty Clearing station near the front lines in Flanders, she was almost killed in a German bombing, but rushed to pull patients from a collapsed ward tent. For her bravery she became one of only seven Australian nurses awarded the Military Medal.Over her career Alice also won the Royal Red Cross and the Florence Nightingale Medal for exceptional courage and devotion.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Mediality, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Australian War Stories ; 108
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9781763596085
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English
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102072
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