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Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC). (1948-)

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-772066

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Australian Women's Register

The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps was formed from the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. Since being established members of the service have served in many theatres of war and other operations including Vietnam, the 1991 Gulf War, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bougainville and East Timor.

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  1. Vale - Barbara Edwina Audrey Starrett (nee Maxwell) Colonel and Last Director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
    [1991]
  2. Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999
    Reid, Richard
    [1999]
    Published: Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, Canberra
  3. The Australian Army: A History of its Organisation 1901-2001
    Palazzo, Albert
    [2001]
    Published: Oxford University Press
  4. Australian Servicewomen's Memorial
    Southwell-Keely, Michael
    [1999]
  5. Six Sisters of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) wave farewell from the gangplank of MV New Australia on embarkation for service in Malaya.
    [Photographs : 1 September 1955]
    Australia. 1955-09-01. Six Sisters of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) wave farewell from the gangplank of MV New Australia on embarkation for service in Malaya. The team, which was later increased to eight, served in British hospitals at Kamunting, Kuala Lumpur and in the Cameron Highlands, nursing not only Australians, but New Zealanders, British, Gurkhas and members of their families.
    Australian War Memorial Research Centre
    DUN/55/0824/EC
  6. Portrait of Sister Betty Crocker, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC)
    [Photographs ]
    Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, Vic. 1951. Portrait of Sister Betty Crocker, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), modelling the first RAANC uniform, worn with black stockings, black lace up shoes, black leather gloves and a black shoulder strap handbag. Tailored in Adelaide, this particular uniform was the very first one made to the new pattern and issued for the new RAANC (as distinct from its predecessor the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service). It was issued to Sister Crocker, the first Sister to enlist for Korea in South Australia. (Donor B. Lawrence)
    Australian War Memorial Research Centre
    P02044.002
  7. Group portrait of officers of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC)
    [Photographs ]
    Butterworth, Malaysia. 1968-10. Group portrait of officers of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) prior to attending a trooping of the Colour Ceremony of the 8th Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR). Left to right: unknown, unknown, unknown, F4950002 Commandant Marie C. Hunter (later Boyle), Australian Red Cross (ARC), Thora Long and Coralie Gerrard (later became a Colonel, RAANC). (Donor M. Boyle)
    Australian War Memorial Research Centre
    P02017.036
  8. "Fort Petticoat"
    [Photographs ]
    Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1968. Margaret Young, Australian Red Cross Field Force Officer (in bikini swimsuit at left), and Jan MacArthur, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), nursing sister (right), hanging out the washing outside "Fort Petticoat", the accommodation block for nurses and Red Cross women at 8 Field Ambulance. (Donor M. Boyle)
    Australian War Memorial Research Centre
    P02017.022

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  1. New Matron-In-Chief For R.A.A.N.C.
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    The Sydney Morning Herald..., Thursday 30 October 1952 Section: Women's section p 5
    ... of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, to succeed Miss A M. Sage, who retired in Aug- ust, has ... neither the latest style from Mars nor madam's new Matron-In-Chief For R.A.A.N.C. The appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. Bowe designed in Vienna Nursing protective clothing for a foundry worker. New ... 212 words
  2. MATRON FALL NOW HON. COLONEL
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    The Sydney Morning Herald..., Thursday 13 August 1953 Section: Women's Section p 5
    ... MATRON FALL NOW HON. COLONEL ONE of the most distinguished members bers of the nursing profession fession in Australia, Miss Constance Fall, .*£v is Principal Matron of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, has been made an honor- ary colonel in the Ser- vice. The rank is retrospec- tive to ... 183 words