Bibliography

Primary sources

Archives:

Commonwealth of Australia, Army Headquarters. “DOYLE JESS GREGORY: Service Number – NX70499: Date of birth – 27 Nov 1911: Place of birth – SYDNEY NSW: Place of enlistment – SYDNEY NSW: Next of Kin – DOYLE NINA. Military Record. From National Archives of Australia, B883, NX70499. https://www.naa.gov.au/. (accessed November 11, 2022).

Department of the Interior [II], Central Office – Australian War Memorial and War Graves. DE MESTRE Margaret Augusta - NX70211 AANS; Year of death - 1942; Cemetery – Adelaide River, NT. Military Record. From National Archives of Australia, A8231 9/DE MESTRE MARGARET AUGUSTA. https://www.naa.gov.au/. (accessed November 11, 2022).

Department of the Interior [II], Central Office – Australian War Memorial and War Graves. DE MESTRE MARGARET AUGUSTA: Service No – NX70211: Date of birth – 16 Nov 1915: Place of birth – BELLINGEN NSW: Place of enlistment – PADDINGTON NSW: Next of Kin – DE MESTRE JAMES. Military Record. From National Archives of Australia, B883, NX70211. https://www.naa.gov.au/. (accessed November 11, 2022).

Archive newspapers:

Coffs Harbour Advocate. “Killed in Action: Bellinger River Nurse.” Online. February 27, 1942. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article187834514 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Daily Examiner. “Bellingen: Memorial Tablet Unveiled.” Online. August 3, 1944. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article194290712 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Daily Telegraph. “Nurse and Fiance Were Both P.O.W..” Online. April 16, 1946, 17. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248497497 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Daily Telegraph. “Letter from Jap Camp.” Online. January 25, 1944, 8. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article247749400 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Harriott, G. E. W.. “Humiliated, Ill-Treated and Starved;” Sydney Morning Herald. Online. September 18, 1945, 3. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17953435 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Mercury. “Former POW Nurses Honoured.” Online. April 1, 1947, 7. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26382296 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Smith’s Weekly. “Ruthless Murder.” Online. March 21, 1942. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234589277 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Sun. “She has died for Australia.” Online. March 1, 1942. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231759737 (accessed November 28, 2022).

The West Australian. “Killed in Action: Death of an A.I.F Sister.” Online. March 13, 1942. From Trove.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article187834514 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Secondary sources

Books:

Bassett, Jan. Guns and Brooches: Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Caiger, George, ed. A Coast Chronicle: The History of the Prince Henry Hospital 1881-1981. Sydney: The Board of the Prince Henry Hospital, 1981.

Cordia, Maylean. Nurses at Little Bay. Sydney: Prince Henry Hospital Trained Nurses’ Association, 1990.

Goodman, Rupert. Hospital Ships. Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2016.

Kenny, Catherine. Captives: Australian Army nurses in Japanese prison camps. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1986. (accessed November 23, 2022: RUSI NSW’s Ursula Davidson Library, Anzac Memorial).

Reid, Richard, Page, Courtney, and Robert Pounds. Just wanted to be there: Australian Service Nurses 1899 – 1999. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Veteran’s Affairs, 1999.

Contemporary news articles:

Carey, Janene. “Sister Margaret Augusta De Mestre.” The Macleay Argus, November 9, 2017, (updated November 13, 2017).

https://www.macleayargus.com.au/story/5046002/flowers-bloom-for-sister-margarets-birthday/

Illustrations

Photographs:

“002563.” Photograph. Sydney, New South Wales; c.1940. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C29820 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“03315.007.” Photograph. Malaya; c.1941-1942. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C955049 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“044480.” Photograph. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C14450 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“305735.” Photograph. Darwin, Northern Territory. From Australian War Memorial, Naval Historical Correction. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C258492 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“P00869.056.” Photograph. From Australian War Memorial; J. S. Archbold collection. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C50598 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“P01015.005.” Photograph. Netherlands East Indies, Sumatra: 1945. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C203654 (accessed November 20, 2022).

“P01081.005.” Photograph. c1941. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C203158 (accessed November 20, 2022).

“P01100.006.” Photograph. From Australian War Memorial, Donor A. Wheeler. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C203197 (accessed November 28, 2022).

“P01295.001.” Photograph. Malacca, Malaya: c1941. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C203753 (accessed November 20, 2022).

“P01344.007.” Photograph. From Australian War Memorial, Donor L. Arthurson.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C229915 (accessed November 20, 2022).

“P04022.005.” Photograph. 1942. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1013568 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Viper, C. P. L.. “124720.” Photograph. Melbourne, Victoria: Roy Alban Vider. From Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C198441 (accessed November 28, 2022).

Website content

The Australian War Memorial. 2022.

https://www.awm.gov.au/ (accessed November 25, 2022).

Charles Darwin University. “77 years on, Sister de Mestre remembered.” College of Nursing & Midwifery. Accessed November 29, 2022.

https://www.cdu.edu.au/nursing-midwifery/sister-de-mestre

Monument Australia. “Sister Margaret de Mestre.” 2022.

https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/military/display/93107-sister-margaret-de-mestre (accessed November 29, 2022).

Virtual War Memorial Australia. “Margaret Augusta DE MESTRE.” Virtual War Memorial Limited.

https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/625596 (accessed November 25, 2022).

WikiTree. “Jess Gregory (Doyle) McAuley (1911 – aft. 1992).” 2008-2022. Interesting.com, Inc..

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doyle-6332.