New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve

About This Unit

The colony of New South Wales was the first to have an Army Nursing Service, albeit as a Reserve unit. However, as such, they were also the first to be able to form a contingent and send fourteen nurses, under the control of Lady Superintendant Nellie Gould, to South Africa to minister to the troops fighting in the second Anglo-Boer War.

For more information on the experience of the nurses, click here to read the Australian War Memorial's article "Friends, Sisters and Pioneers" from Wartime no. 58. (www.awm.gov.au)

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