LibGuides: World War 2 : Australia's involvement: Nurses & Soldiers

Books in our library

Australian women and war by Oppenheimer, Melanie
Call Number: 355.0082 OPP
ISBN: 9781877007286
Publication Date: 2008
Australian women at war by Patsy Adam-Smith
Call Number: 940.5 ADA
Publication Date: 1984
Devotion : stories of Australia's wartime nurses
Call Number: 355.3450922 SIE
Publication Date: 2013
Audacity : stories of heroic Australians in wartime
Call Number: 355 WAL (HASS)
Publication Date: 2014
On Radji Beach by Ian Shaw
Call Number: 940.547252 SHA
ISBN: 9780330404259
Publication Date: 2012
Indigenous service : investigating the wartime experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Call Number: 355.0089915 COL (HASS)
Publication Date: 2013
John Curtin by Janet Merkur
Call Number: 994.042092 CUR
ISBN: 9578021776325
Publication Date: 1999
Australian women in war
Call Number: 355.220994 AUS (HASS collection)
Publication Date: 2005
Australians in wartime by M. McKernan
Call Number: 994.04 McK
Publication Date: 1980
Women in wartime 1914-1918, 1939-1945 by Michael Dugan and Anne Gunter
Call Number: 994.0082 DUG
ISBN: 9733807291920
Publication Date: 1996

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Nurses

Nurses in the war This link opens in a new window
This website is a subscription based one so you will not have access to the multimedia objects but only the text.
Australian Army Nurses This link opens in a new window
Three and a half thousand women served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during WW2, Betty Cornford and Mirth Jamieson talk about their experiences treating soldiers, including some at Changi.
Women in action - nurses and serving women This link opens in a new window
Scroll down to women in WWII.
Vivian Bullwinkel This link opens in a new window
Australian army nursing sister and prisoner of war. A victim of a war atrocity, Bullwinkel was the sole survivor when a group of nurses were machine-gunned by their Japanese captors.
Nurses This link opens in a new window
Scroll down to the list of nurses and choose those who worked as nurses during WWII.

Australian women and war by Melanie Oppenheimer
Call Number: 355.0082 OPP
ISBN: 9781877007286
Publication Date: 2008
Library book available on the shelves for borrowing.
Devotion : stories of Australia's wartime nurses
Call Number: 355.3450922 SIE
Publication Date: 2013
Library book available on the shelves for borrowing.

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Search for information on war time soldiers, nurses
and prime ministers.

Australian War Memorial encyclopedia

Search the encyclopedia for further information
about your WWII topic.

Soldiers

All in - Indigenous service This link opens in a new window
Although they were not classed or treated as Australian citizens, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women fought and died for Australia during World War II.
WWII nominal rolls This link opens in a new window
This site contains information from the service records of some one million individuals who served during World War Two.
List of Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross This link opens in a new window
Use the Australian Dictionary of Biography, TROVE and the nominal rolls to find out more information about these WWII soldiers.
Australians at War This link opens in a new window
Profiles soldiers, POWs and nurses who served during WWII.

Victoria Cross by Anthony Staunton
ISBN: 1740662881
Publication Date: 2005
Library book available on the shelves for borrowing.
Indigenous service : investigating the wartime experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Call Number: 355.0089915 COL (HASS)
Publication Date: 2013
Library book available on the shelves for borrowing.

TROVE

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Relevant Clickview videos

The following clickview videos may be worth watching :

Vivian Bullwinkel (Nurse)
Albert Moore (WWII Australian soldier)
Bill Healey (WWII Australian soldier)
Les Semken (WWII Australian soldier)

To view them click on the clickview player icon on your school computer desktop.
Click on the Clickview Digital Video Library, click on History and click on World War 2.
Scroll down the videos to find the title you are looking for.

If you wish to view them out of school, then click here. You will need a username and password which you must get from the Library Staff.