Re Alice COCKING I did some more looking for Alice Cocking, and got very excited to find some lovely references to her in Rupert Goodman�s �Our War Nurses. The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988�. Alice served at 1 AAH Harefield Park in England. This had been an estate house, given over to the military to be converted into a hospital. It became a centre for specialist repair surgery, facial surgery, for blinded casualties and for treatments such as massage. Alice kept a diary, which is lodged in the State Library (Latrobe Library) in Victoria. Goodman quotes bits of this: �Many blind boys were in the wards and it was a novel experience for Sister Sheehan and myself to take them to the movies and afterwards to tea at the Mia Mia Caf�. We had to describe the pictures to them, they enjoyed the music and the tea, but we had to be back by 6pm�. She also served in Egypt, at Abbassia, and wrote: �I pitied the camel corps out here in the desert, for with those camels, the soldiers got very sore hands and gastric trouble, good food was hard to get. The wounded came in by train, covered in dust, bearded and lousy. We had to cut off their clothes, give them a clean wash, dressings and pyjamas. Many died before we could tend them.� Other Gippsland nurses served in both these places. This book has a wonderful photograph of Sister Alice Cocking, AANS, RRC and Bar. (Although the woman in this photograph does not look the same person as the one identified as Sister Cocking (later Williams) at Mandalya - however the Alice Cocking of the diary later became Alice Williams!) Alice Elizabeth Cocking is listed as �retired� from the 3rd Military District (Victoria) Staff Nurse Reserve List in 1925. Was so excited to find all this information I had to write it now (1.50am) - I had not connected this lady as one of the Gippsland WW1 nurses. Ann Synan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com