The Other Anzacs by Peter Rees.epub
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The Other Anzacs by Peter Rees.epub Title: The Other Anzacs Authors: Peter Rees Formats: EPUB Ids: 9781741769159 Tags: World War I Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd Author Sort: Rees, Peter Title Sort: Other Anzacs, The Published: Nov 2009 Size: 6.95MB Languages: English The harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War. Absorbing wonderful inspiring.' - Peter FitzSimons I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted it I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away ' By the end of The Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery the Western Front. Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had over 500 horrifically injured patients....