World War I · Series · 2014
ANZAC Girls
Five real Australian and New Zealand army nurses follow the war from Cairo to the island of Lemnos and the casualty clearing stations of the Western Front, finding love and grief among the wounded.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 4 places.
Stop 1: Cairo hospitals
Fresh from Australia, the nurses start work in Cairo and meet the soldiers who will shape their lives, before the Gallipoli wounded pour in.
Stop 2: Mudros, Lemnos
Matron Wilson and Olive build a field hospital on a bare island with no shelter and little water, while dysentery spreads through staff and patients.
Stop 3: Rouen
Posted to a British hospital in France, the nurses clash with British discipline as the wounded of the Somme arrive.
Stop 4: Casualty clearing station, Trois Arbres
Key location
Close to the front, Alice and Hilda work through gas attacks and air raids that tear down the tents around their patients.
What really happened
The series is based on Peter Rees' book The Other ANZACs and on the diaries and letters of real nurses, including Matron Grace Wilson, Alice Ross-King, Olive Haynes, Elsie Cook and the New Zealander Hilda Steele. More than 2,000 nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service served overseas during the war.
In August 1915 Grace Wilson's 3rd Australian General Hospital arrived on Lemnos to receive Gallipoli wounded and found no shelter, little water and dysentery everywhere. On the Western Front, Alice Ross-King was at the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station near Trois Arbres when German aircraft bombed it on 22 July 1917; she was one of only seven Australian nurses awarded the Military Medal.
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Full details
- Original title
- ANZAC Girls
- Created by
- Ken Cameron, Ian Watson
- Countries
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Released
- 2014
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Mediterranean & Africa, Western Europe
- Themes
- True story
- Home front
- Romance
