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Australian heroines of World War One, Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front, Susanna De Vries ; read by Deidre Rubenstein

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Australian heroines of World War One

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Susanna De Vries ; read by Deidre Rubenstein

Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front

The outstanding stories of eight courageous women. One brave nursing sister Hilda Samsing became a whistle blower. Nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, outraged by the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs which was censored out of the press she let her diary be shown in high places which raised questions in the House of Commons. In Belgium, Louise Creed, a Sydney journalist caught in the besieged city of Antwerp made a hair-raising escape from a German firing squad and lived to tell the tale. Brisbane's Grace Wilson, ordered to establish an emergency hospital on drought ridden Lemnos Island, arrived there to find suffering Anzacs but no drinking water, tents or medical supplies. Grace and her nurses tore up their petticoats to use as bandages, survived for weeks on bully beef and biscuits and saved the lives of thousands wounded at Lone Pine and the Nek

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