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Sister Janet Ella Radcliff

"It was very necessary to keep in our minds that we are for right and justice otherwise it seemed such a wicked waste of young strong manhood" recalled Janet Radcliff of her time nursing the wounded during World War One.

Janet Radcliff and Alice Gordon King were the first two nurses to leave Tasmania for World War One and were in a group of 25 nurses who sailed with the first convoy of seven Australian Imperial Force ships.

Janet arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, in December 1914.  In 1915, Janet worked on HMHS Sicilia transferring wounded soldiers from the Casualty Clearing Stations (CCS) at Gallipoli to CCSs in Malta and Alexandria.

On Janet's first trip to Gallipoli she recalled inadequate staffing, 500 badly wounded men for a staff of five medical officers, eight trained women, and 12 orderlies.

Janet also served in Belgium with surgical teams operating not far from the front line.

Sister Janet Radcliff was researched for the Frank MacDonald Memorial Study Tour 2022 by Josh Dimsey, of Clarence High School.

Read Josh Dimsey's report about Sister Janet Radcliff.