Anzac Girls - Australian TV Series - 2014 (1 Viewer)

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ANZAC Girls is an Australian television drama series that first screened on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Gallipoli and the Western Front during World War I. The action begins
as the nurses arrive in Cairo in 1915.

The series is based on Peter Rees' book "The Other ANZACs" as well as diaries, letters, photographs and historical documents.

Six part Series. Come out on DVD this week. Looks good, and probably something for the wife also.
Sound a bit like the British series that took place in France in WWI---The Crimson Field

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Girls

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/arts/anzac-girls-is-based-on-a-true-story-from-world-war-i.html?_r=0

 

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I came across this title while surfing through Amazon and it caught my intrest. Has anyone bought this or watched this one. I would like their opinon and review if so? Any action are is it mostly character drama?

Howard Hulsebosch
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I came across this title while surfing through Amazon and it caught my intrest. Has anyone bought this or watched this one. I would like their opinon and review if so? Any action are is it mostly character drama?

Read the two links I provided will give you more insight.

No action. Well, normally nursing personnel are not deployed forward of the brigade trains.

I watched it, and thought it was well done, i.e. acting, cinematography, and etc. First parts are about ANZAC nurses
arriving in Egypt and later establishing medical facilities on Lemnos. A bit of a romanticized soap opera.
It must have been quite a mental and physical shock for a 1915 woman to be transported halfway
around the world to a completely foreign environment from their sheltered lives back home. On Lemnos they
started with bare ground, no tents or adequate supplies.

The series doesn't relate politics or battles. You have know a bit of history to get the full spectrum.
I initially watched it for 1915 wartime medical treatment, but for a couple of patients you get little.
Some of the characters are taken from actual people or composites.

Must have been long hours. For example, a one thousand bed hospital, in Cairo, completely under tentage,
without any floor covering was staffed by 1 Matron, 15 Sisters and 30 Staff Nurses with male medical orderlies
from the Australian Army Medical Corps, and no autoclave, penicillin or X-ray in sight. Compare this to the
Royal Melbourne Hospital ... 700 beds and a staff of 670 nurses including administrative. That is probably nothing
compared to the supply lines.

Summary: A well done 360 minutes to commemorate a more encompassing history
remembrance of two countries coming on their own in the twenty first century.



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The map of Lemnos didn't come through for some reason. Trying again.

If it still doesn't use this link.
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/img/Lemnos_route_map.jpg