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Some Australian women were also able to enlist the French and eventually the British militaries. The most senior Australian woman in military service during the war was Maud McCarthy, the British Expeditionary Force Matron-in-Chief for France and Flanders. Australian women also played a significant role on the Australian home front.
Pages in category "Australian women of World War I" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "Australian military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,068 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Prior to Federation each of the Australian colonies had maintained their own military forces made up pre-dominantly of volunteers or militia, and the uniforms they adopted generally followed colour and design of the part-time British territorial forces, being mostly green and grey as opposed to the red of the British regular forces, although this was worn by some units. [2]
They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during WWI. An inscription thereon reads, “This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women”. [48] There are 1,513 names listed on the screens. [49]
On 4 June 1915, Corkhill enrolled as a staff nurse in the Australian Imperial Force. [3] She left Fremantle aboard the A62 Wandila on 25 June 1915, and arrived in Egypt in July that year. [4] She was assigned to the 1st Australian General Hospital, and assisted in the treatment of soldiers involved with the Gallipoli Campaign.
The bodies of nine Australian soldiers wrapped in hessian, laid out in the bottom of a mass grave at Warloy, France in August 1916. A total of 416,809 men enlisted in the Army during the war and 331,781 men were sent overseas to serve as part of the AIF. [231] A further 3,011 men served in the AN&MEF. [232]
Women have served in Australian armed forces since 1899. [2] Until World War II women were restricted to the Australian Army Nursing Service. This role expanded in 1941–42 when the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force established female branches in which women took on a range of support roles. While ...