What became of the nurses on ANZAC Girls?

If you were an ANZAC Girls viewer you might care to take a look at an article posted by ABC which details what happened to the real-life characters following the end of the Great War.

As we know the characters depicted were based on actual nurses, based on letters, diaries and various historic documents.

Jen King writes about Sister Alice Ross King, played by Georgia Flood:

Following the death of her true love Lieutenant Harry Moffit and the end of the war, Alice returned to Australia as one of only eight Australian nurses to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery. She had wanted to take leave and visit England but had been denied permission and instead was put in charge of the ship’s hospital.

During the voyage, she developed a friendship with the ship’s doctor Major Sydney Appleford, who was also returning from active duty. He broke off his engagement to a girl in Geelong and he and Alice married in August 1919.

They had four children and settled down to a quiet life in Lang Lang in the Victorian Gippsland, where Sydney had a medical practice. When WWII broke out, both Alice and Sydney re-joined the army and Alice, now Major Appleford, became very involved in raising funds for the Red Cross.

She was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by them in 1949. She died in 1969. After her death, her children found a shoebox under her bed and inside was Harry’s last letter.

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