New South Wales Army Nursing Service Reserve (NSWANSR). (1899-1903)

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Armed services organisation
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-768086

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The Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1899 and attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps. This was the first official female army nurses' organisation in the Australian colonies. Nurse Nellie Gould was appointed lady superintendent of the Reserve. On the 17 January 1900 Nurse Gould left with thirteen nursing sisters to serve in the Boer War as part of the British Army. The nursing contingent returned to Australia in 1902. The Reserve was replaced by the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), that was formed post Federation.

New South Wales Army Medical Corps attached to Imperial Draft Contingent - Roll of individuals entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasps:

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  1. Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999
    Reid, Richard
    [1999]
    Published: Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs
  2. Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War
    Bassett, Jan
    [1992]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  3. Australian women at war
    Adam-Smith, Patsy
    [1984]
    Published: Nelson
  4. National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office: Nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps for New South Wales Military Forces who served in Boer War. (1899 - 1907)
    Folder 3B lists the members of the New South Wales Army Merical Corp who were entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasp under the Army Order granting the Medal issued on 1st April, 1901. Page 11 lists the Nursing Sisters. The Nursing Sisters accompanied the Second Contingent which departed on 17th January 1900 on board the ship Moravian. Four remained in South Africa, Lady Superintendent and the others returned. Nursing Sister Elizabeth Nixon was awarded the Royal Red Cross; and was mentioned in despatches in the London Gazette, 27.9.01, and Nursing Sister Mary Annie Pocock was mentioned in despatches, in the London Gazette 27.7.01.
    Series B5204
  5. Australian War Memorial Research Centre: Informal portrait of three nurses who accompanied the Second Contingent to the Boer War as members of the NSW Army Medical Corps. (c. 1902)
    Informal portrait of three nurses who accompanied the Second Contingent to the Boer War as members of the NSW Army Medical Corps. Matron E. J. (Nellie) Gould, Lady Superintendent of the first contingent of Australian military nurses to serve overseas, holds a nurse's chatelaine containing essential tools of the trade (left). Miss Penelope Frater (Sister), holding her Queen Victoria chocolate box, one of those issued to troops and nurses to celebrate the New Year of 1900 (centre). Miss Julia Bligh Johnston (Superintendent) (right), stands with a Rhodesian ridgeback named Buller, brought back from South Africa in 1902.
    A03962

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