Elsie Tranter

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This story draws on the service dossier for Elsie Tranter NAA: B2455, TRANTER ELSIE MAY; her repatriation file NAA: B73, 45567 TRANTER ELSIE MAY, and NAA: P107, M16226; as well as the personal diary of Sister Elsie Tranter AWM DRL 4081A. For further reading on Australian nurses in the Great War see Jan Bassett, Guns and Brooches: Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992); and Bruce Scates and Raelene Frances, Women and the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).