N.Z. NURSES AT TOBRUK
CLEARING STATION IN DESERT
(Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, Dec. 2. Working at a New Zealand casualty clearing station a few miles from Tobruk are eight nurses. It is the first time nurses from the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force have gone so far west, and they are the first New Zealand women to have entered Tobruk.
The sister in charge is Sister V. M. Hodges, Dunedin. The others are Sisters M. I. Tarpey (Christchurch), J. G. Watson (Tauranga). J. K. Tyler (Auckland), J. Bond (Wairarapa), M. K. Murray (Hastings). B. A. Berry (Wellington), and N. C. Newton, Christchurch.
The nurses travelled to Tobruk two to an ambulance, and one said: "It was like a holiday trip in a caravan.” “We prefer this to life in hospital,” another said. “Time passes very quickly, and we have managed to make ourselves fairly comfortable in a couple of tents.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23813, 5 December 1942, Page 2
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