Nora Trethewie (nee Hales) as a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), 1945-1952, interviewed by Jan Bassett

Places	Asia: Japan, Eta Jima Asia: Japan, Kure Oceania: Australia, Tasmania, Campbell Town Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Bonegilla Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Heidelberg Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Puckapunyal
Accession Number	S01809
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	48 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	Bassett, Jan Trethewie, Nora Hope
Place made	Australia: Tasmania, Penguin
Date made	23 May 1987
Access	Open
Conflict	Korea, 1950-1953 Second World War, 1939-1945 British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)
Copyright	Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Source credit to	AWM Special Project Fellowship Award

Description

Enlisting in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in March 1945; served in 111 Australian General Hospital in Campbell Town Tasmania; description of hospital; posted to Bonegilla, Victoria then Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Victoria and then in March 1947 posted to 130 Australian General Hospital in Eta Jima, Japan; describes the hospital and the patients; moved to British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) Hospital at Kure; describes food; recreation; sight-seeing during spare time; visit to Hiroshima; first patients arriving from Korea; appointed to work on hospital train carriage bringing Korean War casualties from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base at Iwakuni to the BCOF hospital at Kure; describes the types of wounds and injuries; relations with British and Canadian nursing sisters; places visited during leave in Japan; posted to camp hospital at Puckapunyal in Australia in 1952; left Army and returned to civilian nursing. END OF INTERVIEW.
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