Janet Butler Janet Butler i(A81473 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 [Review] Woman War Doctor : The Life of Mary DeGaris Janet Butler , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , September vol. 39 no. 3 2015; (p. 426-428)

— Review of Woman War Doctor : The Life of Mary De Garis Ruth Lee , 2012 single work biography
1 6 y separately published work icon Kitty's War Janet Butler , 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Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton.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)

1 Enduring Images of a Dozen Brave and Selfless Women Janet Butler , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 April 2004; (p. 4a-5a)

— Review of Heroic Australian Women in War : Astonishing Tales of Bravery from Galliopoli to Kokoda 2004 selected work biography
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