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1915 Wilson and nurses arrive on Lemnos.

An assessment of the 3rd Australian General Hospital and its nurses revealed a survival rate of 98.03%. (A G Butler, 1930). The Australian Director-General of Medical Services, Lieutenant General Featherstone, concluded in his report on the nurses on Lemnos, “I believe that the Hospital would have collapsed without the nurses. They all worked like demons and were led and guided by Miss Wilson.” (Jim Claven, September 2016). “Thousands of diggers and other Allied soldiers owed their lives to the care of Matron Grace Wilson and her nurses.” (Jim Claven, March 2016) Brisbane Girls Grammar old girl, Kaye Vidgen’s (1961) grandfather, Major Herbert Jameson Stewart, was a medical officer at Lemnos at the same time as Grace, and Kaye recalls that her grandfather knew Grace well.