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Jill Linton Private Australian Army Medical Women's Service

Title
Jill Linton Private Australian Army Medical Women's Service
Repository
Australian War Memorial Research Centre
Reference
S00553
Creator
Angie Michaelis
Description

Jill Linton (born Oliver), 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. 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.

Formats
cassette
Access
cleared

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