AUSTRALIAN NURSES AT HOME.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14740, 20 October 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NURSES AT HOME.

SORRY THEY LEFT EGYPT. Press Association. —Telegraph Copyright Received October 20, 2.30 p m. LONDON, October 19. Fifty Australian nurses who had done most valuable work in Egypt durimi the early rushes of the wounded are idle in England. At one stage each nurse in Egypt tended seven hundred wounded. When their superior officers were re-, called, the Australian nurses were invited to volunteer to come to England and establish No. 10 Australian Hospital. They have been sis weeks in an hotel in London awaiting instructions, os No. 10 Hospital is non-existent. The nUrses are sorry thev left Egypt, where there was full scope for their labours. They fear they ma; - be drafted to English hospitals,* and intend to appeal to Colonel Featherston the moment he arrives.