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in wartime, Australian women fought germs, fired shells – and took on gender norms

  • Written by Jason Smeaton, PhD Candidate, Australian Catholic University
in wartime, Australian women fought germs, fired shells – and took on gender normsMembers of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service at work in the sterilising room of a military hospital, 1943. State Library of Victoria

Sheila Sibley enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 with a vision of becoming a wartime nurse – “an angel of mercy, the wounded man’s guide … the Rose of No-Man’s...

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