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Edith Blake's war : the only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War
Tag	Description
001	$ 000069688921
020	$a9781742237398
082	$a940.475940092
100	$aVane-Tempest, Krista
260	$aKensington, NSW :$bNewSouth Books,$c2021.
300	$axii, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm.
504	$aIncludes bibliographical references.
520	$aIn the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the Glenart Castle took minutes to sink. Of the 182 onboard, 153 perished including all eight nurses. After missing out on joining the Australian Army, in 1915 Edith Blake was one of 130 Australian nurses allocated to the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service by the British government. In very personal letters to her family back home Edith shares her homesickness, frustration with military rules, and the culture shock of Egypt. In Edith Blake's War, her great niece Krista Vane-Tempest traces Edith's story from training in Sydney to her war service in the Middle East and the Mediterranean; her conflicted feelings about nursing German prisoners of war as German aircraft bombed England, to her death in waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hospital ships.
600	$aBlake, Edith$xDeath and burial.
650	$aHospital ships
650	$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xWomen.
650	$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xMedical care
650	$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xNaval operations, German.
650	$aMilitary nursing$zAustralia$xHistory$y20th century.
650	$aWomen in war.
650	$aNurses
650	$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xParticipation, Female.