• Title
  Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918
• Creator
  Frances Agnes Bennett, 1864-1933
• Call number
  MLMSS 345
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1880-1918
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Clippings
• Reference code
  888309
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.06 metres of textual material (1 box)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  After being refused entry in to the Australian Army Nursing Service for being over age, Frances Agnes Bennett (1864-1933) went to England and then Egypt in 1915, where she enlisted in the Queen Alexandria Nursing Service. As Sub-Matron on HMHS Mauretania she nursed at all the Mediterranean ports, and was also in charge of barges on the French canals which were used to transfer the severely wounded.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  Various letters from Frances Agnes Bennett, 1915-1918. Subjects include: serving in Queen Alexandria Imperial Nursing Service, hospital ships in the Mediterranean, HMHS Mauretania where she was Sub-Matron, calls at Mediterranean ports and Southampton England 1915, description of passage to France 1916, No.19 General Ward France, No.4 Carriers Aldershot Hospital, HMHS Aquitania, No.7 CCS France, No.10 Stationary Hospital St Omer, inland water transport, nurses club, life on barge, Boulogne, No.14 Stationary Hospital Wimereux, leave during August 1918, return to No.14, time in England as patient on hospital train, nurses hospital Vincent Square, peace celebrations, troop ship to Australia, conditions of prisoners returned after the armistice.
  Biographical note provided by donor
  Birth certificate of Frances Agnes Bennett, document dated 1880
  Certificate from Prince Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1893
  Certificate of Registration from Australasian Trained Nurses Association, 1902
  Handwritten extract from The Australian Nurses Journal
  Typescript 'H.M.H.S. Mauretania routine orders', 1915
  References and acknowledgement letter relating to Frances Agnes Bennett's resignation as Senior Ward Sister from Royal
  North Shore Hospital of Sydney, 1915
  Ministry of Food Rationing Order, 1918
  Typescript list of nursing staff on HMHS Mauretania
  Routine and Standing Orders of HMHS Aquitania
  Military hospital diet table
  Two photographs of Frances Agnes Bennett, 1906, 1917, photographed by J. C. Cruden
  Newspaper cutting of article relating to 'Sister Bennett'
  Copy of 'Personal precautions for Ward Orderlies especially those on Duty in Infectious Wards'
  Copy of 'Extract from disembarkation instructions'
  Copy of 'Nursing in the army: Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service'
  Copy of 'Rules for members of Q.A.I.M.N.S., T.F.N.S., and Q.A.I.M.S. reserve serving on hospital ships or returning as patients'
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
  Out of copyright: Photograph created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1331502
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bennett, Agnes
  Cruden, James Charles
  
• Name
  Great Britain. Army. Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
  Mauretania (ship)
  Aquitania (troopship)
  
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Medical care.
  Nurses, Australian--20th century.
  World War, 1914-1918--Hospitals--France.
  World War, 1914-1918--Hospitals--England
  Military nursing
  Women in war
  
• Place
  Great Britain
  France
  Egypt
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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