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Women in wartime

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The role of women in war

 

  Women in war Women in action - nurses and serving women (australia.gov.au, previously at cultureandrecreation.gov.au)
- Australian nursing services
- World War 1
- Women's service organisations
- World War 2
- Post World War 2
- Recognising Australian women's war efforts


Women in wartime (australia.gov.au
, previously at cultureandrecreation.gov.au)

Women and war trail (pictureaustralia.org)

The nurses' experience of Gallipoli from their letters (http://www.anzacsite.gov.au)
Stories of nurses supporting the Gallioplli campaign, including photographs taken on Lemnos Island.

Nurses' stories (anzacsite.gov.au)
Australian nurses during World War 1.

Evelyn Gertrude Brooke (nzhistory.net.nz)
New Zealand nurse.

The Nurses (anzacday.org.au)


Women's role and place (anzacday.org.au)
World War 1 significantly increased the role of women in supporting wartime activities.

Casualty Clearance: The WW1 Nurses (anzacday.org.au)

The roles of women in the war (Skwirk.com.au Interactive Schooling)
The emotional burden, women's place in society, charity and fundraising activities, children's roles, the working class, women and propaganda. (Note that this is a commercial site which requires paid membership for further information and access to illustrations.) For a dot-point summary, see Women and the war Chapter 1: The roles of women in the war.

Women in Air Force (Royal Australian Air Force)

Development of the Women's Services in the Australian Defence Force (Army Museum of South Australia) [pdf file]
- Link currently not working, 11 Nov 2011: Try Internet Archive version, then right-click "Impatient?" and open in new tab.

By Mary Bryant and Matt Walsh.

Willingly into the Fray (bigskypublishing.com.au)
Willingly into the Fray by Catherine McCullagh tells the personal stories of 65 Australian Army nurses since 1899. See  also reviews and launch speech.

 
  Activities for students Australian Women in War [Very big pdf file, 24MB] (dva.gov.au)
Warning: this pdf file is a very large 24MB in size. Alternatively, the DVA Education Resources page lets you download individual units:
- Introduction for Teachers
- Unit 1: Australian Women in the Second South African Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- Unit 2: Australian Women in World War I (1914-1918)
- Unit 3: Australian Women in World War II (1939-1945)
- Unit 4: Australian Women in British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) and the Korean War (1946-1953)
- Unit 5: Australian Women in the Vietnam War (1962-1973)
- Unit 6: Australian Women in the Australian Defence Force and in Peace Operations (1947 – Today)
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Unit 7: Australian Women and Commemoration

Women at War: The changing role of women in times of conflict [pdf file] (dva.gov.au)
Part of Working the Web.

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES
Women in War (anzacday.org.au)

Unit 7: Australian Women and Commemoration

 

  Academic paper Women and Anzac Day in Western Australia: newspaper representation in the 1960s [pdf] (tasa.org.au/conferences/conferencepapers09)
Paper presented to a sociology conference. Analyses the representation of women in Anzac Day commemorations using newspaper reports.
 
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Lighthouse Girl in Books: Anzac Fiction
 



Nursing, Lemnos Island, off Gallipoli, 1915
 


Sick nurses, Lemnos Island, off Gallipoli, 1915

Photos from State Library of NSW.

 

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