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Vietnam. 1967-06. Nurse lieutenant Margaret Ahern of Leeton, NSW, with a Vietnamese child at the village of Hoa long. Lieutenant Ahern is one of the first four army nurses to serve on operational duty in Vietnam. The nurses are members of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) with the 8th Field Ambulance based at Vung Tau. |
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Vung Tau, Vietnam, c. 1970-03. A nurse of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) broadcasting Saturday night cheerio calls to Australian soldiers hospitalised in Vietnam. Facing her across the console is another announcer, Sergeant Frank McCartney, RAAF. The console was formerly in service with radio station 2GB, Sydney. (donor: R. Jones) |
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MUM
This is for the nurses of Vietnam always a smile to encourage never sour or glum I don't know what her name was we just called her mum somewhere between thirty and forty how ancient that seemed then for we were all of twenty. just boys dressed up as men she was a nursing corps sister caring for wounded young boys but her light jokes in the morning made her one of our joys how she could get a bloke laughing when he knew of the pain yet to come I don't know, but that was the magic of the angel we called mum where is she now, I wonder still caring perhaps, for all ranks I hope someday she'll read this an' know that her boys said "THANKS" |
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Vung
Tau, South Vietnam. 1967.
Four members of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) from 8th
Field Ambulance Hospital, fossick among coolie hats at a small,
cluttered shop. Left to right: Sister (Sr.) Amy Pittendreigh of Manjimup,
WA; Sr. Terri Roche of Goulburn, NSW; Sr. Colleen Mealy of Port Augusta,
SA; Sr. Margaret Ahearn of Leeton, NSW.
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