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The work of Australian Army nurses in India in the [[First World War]] is decribed in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae. Australian War Memorial website. Describes the 34th Welsh General Hospital (34 WGH) at [[Deolali]]
===First World War hospital for wounded Indian soldiers===
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page185-volume54-6thmarch1915.pdf The Lady Hardinge Hospital at Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, for wounded Indian soldiers] The sisters at the hospital , who performed mainly supervisory duties, all spoke Hindustani<ref> [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page185-volume54-6thmarch1915.pdf ''The British Journal of Nursing'' March 6, 1915 Volume 54, page 187].</ref> The newly constructed hospital, consisting of a series of huts, opened 20 January 1915<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/orderofhospitalo00finciala#page/36/mode/2up page 36] ''The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and its Grand priory of England'' by H.W. Fincham 1916 Archive.org</ref>, although it appears there had been other hospital facilities from about September 1914<ref>World War 1 document by Hampshire Record Office, page 18 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:WxKWaSc_PCYJ:www.hants.gov.uk/rh/archives/ww1.pdf+Brockenhurst+Hospital+Indian&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgFWkDLf9DL-5bTbc_6u74NDEx7jkSAhviCa12kF-Xr-stem1EvhtjsnlhyTO-dJWiG6lioQ-fWQHXf3I2lp7U1et0s8fwWfxYysAYst3niU3iFKH4K7Suzv_3luBmsgeIl5ZGe&sig=AHIEtbSAksQdcR43IUI6-utQ9DIJeqqyxw html version], [http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/archives/ww1.pdf pdf]</ref>, possibly in hotels.<ref> [http://www.newforestmilitaryarchive.org.uk/Site/Brockenhurst/Brockenhurst.html Brockenhurst War Memorial]</ref> In the summer of 1916 the Indian hospital was transferred to Brighton and the site at Brockenhurst became a New Zealand military hospital
[http://www.lymington.org/photographs/lymingtonphoto353.html Photograph of the huts] lymington.org. Names of some of the nurses from BJN 21 November 1914-23 October 1915:[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME053-1914/page402-volume53-21stnovember1914.pdf 1]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page026-volume54-9thjanuary1915.pdf 2]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page152-volume54-20thfebruary1915.pdf 3]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page171-volume54-27thfebruary1915.pdf 4]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME054-1915/page278-volume54-3rdapril1915.pdf 5]
[http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME055-1915/page337-volume55-23rdoctober1915.pdf 6]
===Records at the British Library about Military Nursing===
Records relating to nursing at the [[British Library]] include:
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