Australians on the Western Front: Angels from the bush

By Michael Grealy
Updated April 25 2018 - 2:00pm, first published March 29 2018 - 12:00pm
ABOVE AND BEYOND: Sister Nellie Morrice (right) outside her tent at No. 3 Australian General Hospital in Abbeville, France, in 1917. Nellie's tour of duty began in 1914 and did not end until 1919. Photo: AWM H16063
ABOVE AND BEYOND: Sister Nellie Morrice (right) outside her tent at No. 3 Australian General Hospital in Abbeville, France, in 1917. Nellie's tour of duty began in 1914 and did not end until 1919. Photo: AWM H16063

Scratch the surface of Yackandandah’s First World War Memorial and out flow the stories of nurses from the bush who went to war.