Australian soldiers and nurses, Egypt, 1915.
Australian War Memorial photo.
Diary excerpt from May 5, 1915:
"...Everyone has felt the awful strain of the last week & there is so much personal element with it. If we had been nursing strange troops we may have felt it less, but among our own people the horrors of war are brought home more intensely. Almost everyone on the ship has some relation or friend at the front & so you are constantly dreading to hear the latest news in case it is some one we know or are interested in. God preserve them all but that seems an impossibility unless the war ends quickly."
From the Alice Kitchen Papers, Special Collections, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
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