Janet Butler Janet Butler i(A81473 works by)
Gender: Female
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2013 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships New Work - Emerging Writers Non-fiction

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y separately published work icon Kitty's War St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013 Z1924885 2013 single work biography

'The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton.

Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out on a journey in July 1915 which would take her across the world and into the First World War took hold of Janet Butler and inspired her to research and share Kit's story.

This decisive and dryly humorous woman embarked upon the troopship Orsova, bound for Egypt in 1915. Kit's absorbing diaries follow her journey through war, from Egypt, where she cared for the Gallipoli sick and wounded,to the harsh conditions of Lemnos Island, off the coast of the Dardanelles, and then on to France and the Somme. Here she nursed severely wounded German soldiers for the British. During Passchendaele, a year later, she ran the operating theatre of a clearing station near the front line. Kit finished the war as Australia's first plastic surgery nurse, assisting medical pioneers in this field as they repaired the shattered faces of Australian soldiers.

Through Kitty's diaries and Janet Butler's thoughtful narration, we see the war through the eyes of a young Australian nurse as she is transformed by what she witnesses. Kitty's War is an intimate and rare story of one woman's remarkable experience of war.' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 winner The Australian Historical Association Awards W. K. Hancock Prize
2014 shortlisted National Biography Award
2013 winner New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Australian History Prize
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