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War Reaches Australia: Bombing of Darwin 1942
Amongst the exhibits in the Australian War Memorial is a beige cotton working dress with links to the bombing of Darwin in 1942. The…

Dr James Barry: The first woman General in the British Army
On the morning of 25th July 1865, a secret was unveiled at Cavendish Square, London that would scandalise Victorian Society – the claim that…

From Lilian Violet Cooper to Australia’s other pioneering female military surgeons of World War I
The war service of Lilian Violet Cooper, the first female surgeon of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, is well recognized. Not so well…

Dr Phoebe Chapple MM: A WWI Australian Doctor On The Western Front
Dr Phoebe Chapple was one of 15 Australian women doctors who undertook overseas military service during World War I and became the first Australian,…