Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad highlights the contribution of women at home in the Canberra community and the nurses who served overseas in many theatres of war during World War I. Despite a small scattered population, Canberra women rallied to organise practical support and to raise funds for the war effort.
They prepared food parcels, knitted socks and balaclavas, wrote letters to the men overseas and supported each other when sons, husbands or brothers appeared on the casualty lists. The nurses, some born in the Territory, others who enlisted from their jobs at Canberra hospitals, served in all theatres of war from Gallipoli to Egypt, from France to India and England to Salonika.
Read more about these women in the essay and in the biographical entries on women in the community at home and those who nursed abroad.