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AANS - Australian Army Nursing Service |
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Mobilised for wartime service in September 1939, the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) numbered nearly 3,500. AANS nurses tended the sick and wounded in Australian general hospitals and casualty clearing stations in every theatre of war. The AANS had the highest number of deaths - 72 - of any of the women's services. Some AANS nurses were massacred by the Japanese and others died while prisoners of war. | |
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