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Film Review ANZAC Girls
1. General Overview- The miniseries ANZAC Girls, set in World War I, displays the harsh conditions and extraordinary stories of nurses in the time of war. The miniseries deeply explores the war efforts of five nurses working for the Australian Army Nursing Service in Egypt, the Dardanelles and Lemnos. The action begins in 1915 as the nurses arrive in Cairo, Egypt. With no time wasted, all had little time to get to know one another, and the women are immediately faced with gruesome jobs of newly injured soldiers. During the Gallipoli campaign, sisters Olive Haynes, Alice Ross-King, Hilda Steele, Elsie Cook and Matron Grace Wilson moved far and wide providing the best possible care for the Australian Diggers, which then all the nurses experience the horror of front line, fighting without weapons. The series starts …show more content…

Bertie Betts, dressed as Lord Kitchener, and his cousin, Eunice Bryant, dressed as a nurse, were winners of a Red Cross fancy dress competition in 1915. The children were photographed, and postcards were produced and sold to raise money for the Red Cross.
The Geneva Convention is a set of international rules, which, many but not all, countries agree to follow during wartime. These were written to protect the rights of prisoners of war, the wounded, non-combatants, and civilians caught up in war zones. The nurses thought these rules would keep them safe, but the Japanese government did not agree to obey them. Personnel charged with the transportation and treatment of the wounded and sick shall be respected and protected under all circumstances. If they fall into the hands of the enemy they shall not be treated as prisoners of war.
While serving in areas close to the front line in New Guinea, RAAFNS nurses were instructed to dye their white ward dresses with strong tea. It was feared that white uniforms made them too visible from the air and they could become enemy

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