Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4958301

Reference: WO372/23

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D6084357
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4963393

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8451488

Name: https://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10679026/#biography

Title: Biography of Narelli Hobbes

Description: Biography at Australian War Memorial

Connected by: Alathea13662

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10679026/#biography
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Additional: Name and military details match (although AWM site has Narelle rather than Narelli as given name).

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ID: 8664298

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Lizbet72994

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/690579

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8664304

Name: see URL

Title: "Red Rag to a British Bull "

Description: "Australian trained nurses working with British nurses during World War I" Scroll through for quotes from Letters

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/34509/67064_00002760_03_RedRag1.pdf?sequence=1
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ID: 8664305

Name: see URL

Title: :"Stories of Broken Dreams"

Description: Personal research from a descendant includes photo etc.

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3034804/opinion-stories-of-broken-dreams/
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ID: 8664308

Name: see URL

Title: "Almost within Sight of Australia"

Description: Story presented as part of a MOOC by Monash University

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: http://future.arts.monash.edu/onehundredstories/almost-within-sight-of-australia/
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ID: 8990771

Name: ISBN10: 0 7333 1710 3

Reference: Kings Beach, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia

Title: Oceans of Love

Description: Biography of Narelle Hobbes - written by Melanie Oppenheimer. Published by ABC Books, Australia

Connected by: Gerald98528

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ID: 9015131

Title: Sister Narelle Hobbs

Description: Australian nursing sister WW1

Connected by: Gerald98528

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ID: 9201518

Reference: au_nsw_bmd_births

Title: New South Wales Births Transcription

Connected by: Ann39898

UPP: ANZ/BMD/NSW/B/0001860641

Credit: © NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

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ID: 9237439

Name: Page 283

Title: The British Journal of Nursing - 9th November 1918 - Our Roll of Honour

Description: Short article about the death of Sister Narrelle Hobbes. See Stories section for full transcription.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME061-1918/page283-volume61-09thnovember1918.pdf
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ID: 9261150

Title: Nurses memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Description: A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image © 2018 Nursing Memorial Appeal, kindly made available for use on Lives of the First World War.