Nurses Narratives Staff Nurse Laura May Appleton

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
Part of Quest:
Nurses Narratives
Status:
Finalised
Accession number:
AWM2021.219.3
Difficulty:
Jalburrev 5. coPY. 48 960 I was one of the Australian Sisters who was sent to Salonika. We arrived there in April 1918 after doing six months' duty in British Hospitals in Alexandria. The climate in Salonika was most trying - I was in a dysentry Hospital almost all the time. We worked very nand. The work would have been interesting if we had had a little less of it and a few more conveniences.. Hospital equipment was very bad and we had no comforts at all. The camp equipment which we were to be supplied with arrived a few weeks before we left Salonika. Malaria was very bad, for our Hospital was situated on the side of a ravine that was infested with the dangerous insect. Our food would have been very poor if it had not been for the Australian Red Cross. We were pleased to leave there and most of us were very thankful to get a trip to the British Isles. It was very nice to be sent on duty to an Australian Hospital and nurse our own troops at Sutton Veny and to have more comforts such as hot baths, decent rooms and good food, as well as the company of our own people. 1.) Laura M. Appleton.

Salonica 

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3. 
C O P Y.
I was one of the Australian Sisters who was sent to
Salonika. We arrived there in April 1918 after doing
six months' duty in British Hospitals in Alexandria.
 

The climate in Salonika was most trying - I was in
a dysentry Hospital almost all the time. We worked very
hand. The work would have been interesting if we had had
a little less of it and a few more conveniences. Hospital
equipment was very bad and we had no comforts at all. The
camp equipment which we were to be supplied with arrived a
few weeks before we left Salonika.
 

Malaria was very bad, for our Hospital was situated
on the side of a ravine that was infested with the
dangerous insect.


Our food would have been very poor if it had not 
been for the Australian Red Cross.


We were pleased to leave there and most of us were
very thankful to get a trip to the British Isles. It was
very nice to be sent on duty to an Australian Hospital and
nurse our own troops at Sutton Veny and to have more
comforts such as hot baths, decent rooms and good food, as
well as the company of our own people.
 

(Sgd.) Laura M. Appleton.
 

 
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