Australian Women in War

Australian Women
Exhibition

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Australian Women in War is an online exhibition listing Australian women, and women's organisations, who offered their assistance in the Boer War, World Wars and subsequent conflicts. It provides links to biographical, bibliographical and archival information relating to a small selection of these individuals and organisations in the Australian Women's Archives Project register. The project was a joint initiative of the New South Wales Local Committee of the Australian Women's Archives Project (AWAP) and the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs.

From the information obtained the following conclusions were drawn: All associations, whether military or civilian, were proud of their volunteer status; ex-members made few distinctions between their service and association, in actual fact they were seen as one; some of the significant people suggested for biographies served in more than one conflict.

Details

URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/war/war.html

Published Resources

Books

2nd Australian Ambulance Car Company, 1942-1946., [2nd Australian Ambulance Car Company Association], [Sydney?], [198-], 28 pp. [ Details... ]
A brief record of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-1945, [V.F.X. 47777], [Melbourne], [1985?]., 52 pp. [ Details... ]
History of the Women's Australian National Services, 1940-1946, Luxton & Hooper, Sydney, 1947, 43 pp. [ Details... ]
AWAS : women making history, Boolarong Publications for AWAS Lae Contingent, Chevron Island, Qld, 1988, 90 pp. [ Details... ]
A.W.A.S. Association (N.S.W.), Khaki-clad and glad : 30 years after, [Sydney], [1971], 28 pp. [ Details... ]
Adam-Smith, Patsy, Australian women at war, Nelson, Melbourne, 1984, 386 pp. [ Details... ]
Alldritt, Nancy, Candles in the sky, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, [1998]. [ Details... ]
Army Nursing Services, Australian Imperial Force, Extracts from regulations and orders; seniority list, Goverment Printer, Melbourne, 1917, 24 pp. [ Details... ]
Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921), Army nursing services: Australian Imperial Force and Australian Military Forces., Albert J. Mullett, Goverment Printer, Melbourne, 1916, 19 pp. [ Details... ]
Australian Imperial Force, 2nd (1939-1946), Australian Imperial Force: order for nursing service, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1914, 5 pp. [ Details... ]
Bassett, Jan, Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992, 261 pp. [ Details... ]
Buckley, Martin J., We also served, far north coast N.S.W. ex-servicewomen 1939-1945, Martin J. Buckley, Goonellabah, [N.S.W.], c1995, 154 pp. [ Details... ]
Critch, Mary, Our kind of war, Artlook Books Trust, [Perth], W.A, 1981, 211 pp. [ Details... ]
Curtis-Otter, M, W.R.A.N.S. : the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Naval Historical Society of Australia, Garden Island (NSW), 1975, 99 pp. [ Details... ]
Darling, Pat, Portrait of a nurse : prisoner of war of the Japanese 1942-1945 Sumatra, Don Wall, Mona Vale, NSW, 2001, 98 pp. [ Details... ]
Dugan, Michael and Gunter, Anne, Women Make Australian History : Women in Wartime 1914-1918, 1939-1945, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1996, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
Eadie, Edith D. K.; Australia Remembers 1945-1995 S.A. Committee, With the AANS: 1939-1945, Australia Remembers Committee, [Adelaide?], 1995, [ca. 100 p.] pp. [ Details... ]
Fenton Huie, Shirley, Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Watermark Press, Balmain, N.S.W., 2000, 341 pp. [ Details... ]
Goodman, R D, VAD's in peace and war : the history of Voluntary Aid Detachments in Australia during the 20th century, Boolarong, Brisbane, 1991, 231 pp. [ Details... ]
Goodman, R., Our war nurses, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, Queensland, 1988, 294 pp. [ Details... ]
Howard, Ann, You'll be sorry!, Tarka, Sydney, 1990, 193 pp. [ Details... ]
Kenny, Catherine, 1962-, Captives: Australian army nurses in Japanese prison camps, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld, 1986, 173 pp. [ Details... ]
Linn, Rob, Their sacrifice: Australia remembers 1945 - 1995, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, 1995, 103 pp. [ Details... ]
Mount-Batten, Betty J, From blue to khaki: The enlisted voluntary aids and others who became members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service and served from 19421-1951, Betty J Mount-Batten, [Wollstonecraft, N.S.W.], 1995, 280 pp. [ Details... ]
Murphy, Frances, Desert, bamboo and barbed wire: the 1939-45 story of a special detachment of Australian Army nursing sisters, fondly known as the "Angels in Grey" and their fate in war and captivity, Ollif, Hornsby, N.S.W., 1983, 271 pp. [ Details... ]
Oliff, Lorna, Women in khaki, Ollif Publishing Company, [Sydney], 1981, 335 pp. [ Details... ]
Reid, Richard, Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, Canberra, 1999, 121 pp. [ Details... ]
Smith, Neil C, The Australian Army Nursing Service: a short history with World War One nominal roll and award citations, Mostly Unsung Military History Research and Publications, Gardenvale, Vic., 1996, 49 pp. [ Details... ]
Tilton, May, The grey battalion, Angus & Robertson, (Sydney :Halstead Printing), Sydney, 1933, 310 pp. [ Details... ]
Tucker, Eileen, We answered the call : AWAS of Western Australia and their mates, E. Tucker, [Cloverdale, W.A.], 1991, 188 pp. [ Details... ]
Underwood, Polly, The reflections of an old grey mare: a salute to those who served, P. Underwood, [Kenmore, Qld.], 1987, 76 pp. [ Details... ]
WRAAC Association, A Stroll down memory lane, 2001, 38 pp. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

Hardisty, Sue (ed.) (ed.), Thanks girls and goodbye : the story of the Australian Women's Land Army 1942-45, Viking O'Neil, Ringwood, Vic, 1990, 231 pp. [ Details... ]
Kirby, June (compiled and edited by) (eds), A special job : the Wheatstone girls, 1943-45, 122 edn, Seaview Press, Henley Beach, SA, 1999. [ Details... ]
Martin, Desmond (Ed.) (ed.), Backing up the boys : the Australian Women's Army Service and Albury army area, The Club, Bandiana [Vic.], 1988, 144 pp. [ Details... ]
Stevenson, Clare and Darling, Honor (eds), The W.A.A.A.F. book, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, c1984, 288 pp. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

'The mobilisation of women into active services / the 'Yankee' invasion / How the war affected women', http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1272. [ Details... ]
'Australia - the homefront', http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1270. [ Details... ]
'Australian Women and World War ll: Kit', http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1269. [ Details... ]
'Visit Gallipoli', in The Nurses' Experience of Gallipoli from their Letters, http://www.gallipoli.gov.au/5environment/nurses.html. [ Details... ]
Australian Women's Archives Project, Australian Women in War, National Foundation for Australian Women, March 2004, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/war/war.html. [ Details... ]
Chamberlain, Max, 'Australian nurses in the Boer War', in Defending Victoria, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/readroom.htm#nursing. [ Details... ]
MacFarlane, Ian, 'Victorian nurses in the Boer War', in Defending Victoria Australia, 2002, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/nurses.html. [ Details... ]
Southwell-Keely, Michael, 'Australian Servicewomen's Memorial', in War Memorials in Australia, July 2000, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm. [ Details... ]