• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000918

Jill Edith Linton (née Oliver), as a Private, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, interviewed by Angie Michaelis for the Keith Murdoch Sound Archives of Australia in the War of 1939-45

  • Repository Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
  • Reference S00553
  • Date Range 20-Mar-89 - 20-Mar-89
  • Description

    2 hr Discussing joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment; training; assignment to the 2/5th Australian General Hospital; change to AAMWS; nursing in New Guinea; contact with American servicemen in Papua New Guinea; nursing POWs; uniforms; working conditions; use of drugs for skin diseases; leisure. Oral history audio cassette; TDK D60; two track mono

  • Formats Cassette
  • Access Onsite use only

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  • See also
    • Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) (1914 - )
    • Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) (1942 - 1951)