Artefact During WW1

1 All of the generals, colonels and highly ranked military officials were men, and most had some description of prejudice against women working in the war. They expressed this clearly in the uncouth way they treated them and the fact that they seemed to barely trust or acknowledge them. This artefact is Sister Alice Ross King’s diary excerpt This artefact should be included in the exhibition as it shows the one of the hardships that Australian army nurses had to go through during WW1. Nurses are often marginalised but this is evidence that WW1 wasn’t simple for them. This artefact shows that women weren’t treated the same as men during ww1, they must have had worse experiences than men. Women weren’t ever leaders or highly ranked in ww1 as most men were chauvinistic. Men believed that women were inferior to them and some believed that women weren’t skilled enough to even be at the war working as army nurses. Men also didn’t acknowledge or trust the army nurses and mistreated them.
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This artefact is Ella tucker's impression as a ww1 army nurse. This artefact should be included in the exhibition as it shows that the army nurse's ww1 experiences made a strong dreadful everlasting impression on their lives. This evidence shows that army nurses were eternally traumatised, depresses and shocked. This is because they had to view extremely disturbing scenes and also comfort and sympathise both physically injured and mentally ill patients. They also would have felt eternal guilt as if they had more resources and more staff, then often they could have saved a patient's life. Therefore, army nurses had ravaging experiences from ww1 that strongly affected the rest of their lives. Nurses weren't able to properly sleep, work and had a continual