World War One Nurses as Soldier Settlers
In commemoration of ANZAC Day this Sunday, Selena Williams has written a post over on the Archives Outside blog titled Acknowledging World War One Nurses as Soldier Settlers.
To quote from the post:
Not quite seen as “heroes”
Australian women who served overseas during World War One as nurses were entitled to apply for land under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Scheme. Land settlement as a method of repatriation was to become central to the rehabilitation process in Australia, and nurses were included in repatriation legislation under the broad category of ‘soldier’. Central to the soldier settlement scheme was the philosophy of providing for returning soldiers, ‘land for heroes’. Yet, the men of the AIF were considered the ‘heroes’ by State and Commonwealth governments – not the nurses who served.
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