Gwenyth Farrar Jones, as a Captain, Australian Army Nursing Service and 2/5th Australian General Hospital, interviewed by Angie Michaelis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the War of 1939-45

Place Oceania: New Guinea1
Accession Number S00545
Collection type Sound
Measurement 1 hr 45 min
Object type Oral history
Physical description audio cassette; unbranded C60; two track mono
Maker Jones, Gwenyth Farrar
Michaelis, Angie
Date made 3 March 1989
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Source credit to The Keith Murdoch Sound Archive of Australia in the war of 1939-45
Description

Discussing nursing training; enlistment; military nursing; posting to New Guinea; impact of war of nursing career; relationships between nurses and patients; contact with American servicemen; health or nursing staff in New Guinea; uniforms, working conditions; wartime medical technology; treatment of burns; Australian nurses fears of black American servicemen.