For the Sake of the Soldier: Voluntary Work of Brisbane WomenMacleod, Rita
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For the Sake of the Soldier: Voluntary Work of Brisbane Women
Macleod, Rita
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Australia; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Australia
No man, woman or child can plead ignorance of Red Cross Work. It
is voluntary help given to alleviate the pain and sickness of the
soldiers, and the women of Queensland have spared no effort to supply
goods to the hospitals and convalescent homes both at home and abroad.
The military hospitals in and around Brisbane, the transports leaving
for war zones, and the Australian divisions of the Red Cross in Egypt,
England, France and other parts of Europe are supplemented with
necessities from the Queensland division of the Red Cross. To the
head-quarters in Adelaide Street there is a steady flow of consignments
arriving from the suburban and country branches. These are unpacked in
the receiving and distributing room on the basement and stored ready
for the demands of the military authorities. When a requisition for a
hospital or transport is received the articles are again packed and
distributed: groceries, bandages, socks, shirts, pyjamas, magazines and
the hundred and one articles required for the sick or wounded being
arranged and consigned according to the requirements. One thousand
1lb. tins of dripping are sent monthly for the prisoners of war in
Germany, in addition to tins of fruit, meat extracts, honey, rolled
oats, tea, cheese and other groceries, £5,400 a month being spent by
the Australian Red Cross Society for the prisoners of war alone.
Then there are requirements of the men in the hospitals overseas.
Altogether over 400,000 articles and hundreds of cases and bales
of sundries have been sent overseas since the war broke out, 1258
consignments having been sent since last December in addition to 160
bags of sugar. The donations in money which have been collected and
gathered through the strenuous efforts of the women amount to over
£129,864. All this work is voluntary. This fact cannot be stressed too
much, for therein lies the spirit of service which pervades the work
of women for the soldier. Many of the Red Cross members have given up
their lives to the society since the outbreak of the war, and in no
way have their efforts diminished. The only absentees are those who
are ill from overwork; but so strong is the desire to return, that
often while yet in the stage of convalescence they will return to their
posts.
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