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Kitty's war : the remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton / Janet Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Janet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McNaughton, Kit, 1885?-1953.
- McNaughton, Kit.
- Australia. Australian Army--Nurses--Biography.
- Australia.
- Military nursing--Australia--Biography.
- Military nursing.
- World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--Australia.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out on a journey in July 1915 which would take her across the world and into the First World War took hold of Janet Butler and inspired her to research and share Kit's story. This decisive and dryly humorous woman embarked upon the troopsh
- Contents:
- Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Journey into war: July - August 1915; 2 Interlude in Egypt: August 1915; 3 Lemnos Island: September 1915 - January 1916; 4 Friendship and Romance, Lemnos Island: September 1915 - January 1916; 5 Interlude in Cairo: January - March 1916; 6 Interlude in Marseilles: April - June 1916; 7 Nursing wounded German soldiers, the Somme: June - October 1916; 8 The Western Front after the Somme: October 1916 - August 1917; 9 On the frontline, Trois Arbres, France: August - December 1917
- 10 The end of the diary, Dartford: January - August 191811 Sidcup, the Wiltshire and home: August 1918 - February 1953; Conclusion; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; Picture section
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-5104-6
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