Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918
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    Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918

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    MLMSS 345

    Record identifier

    16AJ7yen

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    Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918

    Full title

    Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918

    Author / Creator

    Bennett, Frances Agnes, 1864-1933

    Date

    1880-1918

    Call Numbers

    MLMSS 345

    Record Identifier

    16AJ7yen

    Formats

    Manuscripts, Pictures and Photographs

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    0.06 metres of textual material (1 box)

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    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

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Great Britain France Egypt certificates birth certificates World War, 1914-1918--Medical care. Nurses, Australian--20th century. World War, 1914-1918--Hospitals--France. World War, 1914-1918--Hospitals--England military hospitals Military nursing Women in war Great Britain. Army. Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Mauretania (ship) Aquitania (troopship)

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    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 Alder...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    Frances Agnes Bennett papers, 1880-1918

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    Author / Artists

    — NOTES

    General note

    Digital order no:Album ID : 1331502

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Presented by Dr Agnes Bennett, 1955

    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 canal...

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    Call Numbers

    MLMSS 345

    Record Identifier

    16AJ7yen

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJ7yen

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

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    888309

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