Kathleen Campbell
Australian Nurses in Egypt, WWI |
| Played on The Greatest Generation MUSH (2005-2006) |
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Full Name: Kathleen Cambpell Known as: Kathleen Birthplace: Echuca, Australia Occupation: Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service Hobbies/Interests: Farming |
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Nurse Kathleen Campbell was born in the small town of Echuca, in southern Australia. She worked on her family's cattle farm until her father decided to send her off to school in Melbourne to become a nurse. Not long after she'd completed her training, the war broke out. It took her a little while to work up the courage, but in 1915 Kathleen enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service.
Her first assignment was on the hospital ship Sicilia, ferrying wounded from Gallipoli to the Greek island of Lemnos. Working amid the horrible conditions on the ship cured Kathleen of any notions of nursing being a romantic adventure. But she stuck with it, accompanying the Australian Imperial Force to such places as the Suez Canal, the Somme, and Amiens. Kathleen was eventually assigned to the field hospital at Arras. For a time, she went with a team of nurses to assist the American troops at Belleau Wood before returning once again to Arras. After the war, Kathleen married her fiancee, RFC airman Lieutenant Jack Higgins, and they returned to Australia to raise a family. |
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