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