Australian officers and nurses in happier times.
Australian War Memorial EO 5197
"April 29th. Some of the wounded arrived today, our first real war heroes from Turkey . They were mostly minor injuries from bullet wounds about arms or shoulders. We had 50 tonight. Was on duty all day…All seem ravenous for food & full of excitement & all eager to hear the news. We hear rumors of their doing very well & also of heavy losses in some battalions. Very little news of the 8th. It all makes one feel the ease with which the spark of life is extinguished & the impossibility of rekindling it. God grant all we are interested in may be spared. How horrible war is.”
Diary excerpts from the Alice Kitchen Papers, Special Collections, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
Diary excerpts from the Alice Kitchen Papers, Special Collections, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
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