Mary Chomley

SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: This entry is based on prisoners’ letters sent to Miss Chomley and the Australian-British Red Cross in AWM: 1DRL615 [749/19/20]; statements by repatriated prisoners AWM 30; and the Chomley Papers held in the State Library of Victoria MS 11000 and in the Red Cross Archives in both London and Melbourne. The most extensive treatment of Miss Chomley’s life and work can be found in Josephine Kildea’s honours thesis, ‘Miss Chomley and her Prisoners: the Prisoner of War Experience and the Australian Red Cross in the Great War (BA honours thesis, University of New South Wales, 2006). Other useful sources include Nola Anderson, ‘Dear Miss Chomley’, Wartime, no. 21, pp. 44– 46; Joan Beaumont, ‘Whatever Happened to Patriotic Women, 1914-1918?’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 115, 2000, pp. 273–286 and Melanie Oppenheimer, The Power of Humanity: 100 Years of the Australian Red Cross (Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2014). The authors thank Jane High of the British Red Cross for her help in accessing records in London.