Karoola: WW1. No. 1 Australian Hospital Ship

‘KAROOLA’ No.1. Australian Hospital Ship WW1. The story of Medical service, Official War History, and the Diaries and Letters of Rex Sargent (later Dr Rex Sargent), who served on the Hospital Ship as a Medical Orderly and Pathologists from 1917-1919. Here we were with our returning heroes from the great war, conquering heroes, a boat load on a white ship with a big peering eye at her very nose, stalking her way cautiously through a narrow waterway in pitch darkness, the music of instrument and voices echoing out into the night, songs common to we Australians, bound from one part of the world to another and under this Eastern Sky. There are the boys below, nerve wracked, shell shattered, maimed and suffering, unable to leave their beds. Men as soldiers, having earned an undying name for Australia, As soldiers they are said to have no equal Read more