Enid Edmeades Ratcliff as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1940-1946, interviewed by Jan Bassett

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Accession Number S01806
Collection type Sound
Measurement 33 min
Object type Oral history
Physical description 1/4 inch sound tape reel; BASF LP 35; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; stereo; 5 inch
Maker Ratcliff, Enid Edmeades
Bassett, Jan
Date made 22 May 1987
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Source credit to AWM Special Project Fellowship Award
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Early life; nursing training; joining the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1940, sent to Gaza in Palestine with the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital; conditions in Gaza; ailments of patients; sent to Cairo to work in British Army hospital; working conditions in British hospital; sent to Haifa then Kantara; recreation; placed in camp in Port Suez before return to Australia via Colombo; arrival in Perth then movement to Adelaide; posted to orthopeadic hospital in Frankston; posted to Toowoomba then to training unit at Darley; posted to Aitape in New Guinea; uniforms worn in tropics; posted to Rabaul on New Britain; conditions; Japanese prisoners working in hospital; discharged in 1946; civilian nursing in Tasmania after war; recounts experience of air raid in Middle East. END OF INTERVIEW
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