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Our opening days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. (NO Saturday or Monday or Tuesday’s at this time.)
Our hours are 10:30 am – 3:00 pm.
PLEASE NOTE Our last entry is at 1:00 pm.
Allow approximately 2 hours for a visit
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Wheelchair access available
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Adults $15
Seniors/Concession $10
Child (6-17) $10
Family Group (2+3) $35
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International Nurses Day is celebrated worldwide every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. ICN commemorates this important day each year by producing and distributing the International Nurses' Day (IND) resources and evidence.
More than 3,000 Australian civilian nurses volunteered for active service during the First World War. While enabling direct participation in the war effort, nursing also provided opportunities for independence and travel, sometimes hoping to be closer to loved ones serving overseas.
About 3,500 Australian Army nurses served either overseas or in Australia during World War II.
More than 200 Australian civilian nurses, 100 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and 43 nurses from the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) served during the Vietnam War.
Countless more have served and continue to serve since.
All images courtesy of the Army Museum of Western Australia collection
Image one, Australian Army Nurses outside a hospital tent, c1914
Image two, Formal portrait of nurses taken in Fremantle c1913
Image three, Informal outdoor portrait of two Australian Army Nursing Service Nurses of 2/7 Australian General Hospital
Image four, Chaplain Riley with Nurses and Medical staff outside thatched hut in Papua New Guinea c1944
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Due to the recent relaxing of Covid 19 restrictions visitors no longer need to pre book their tours online or show proof of vaccination.
The museum will still comply with State Government standards when and if required. We recommend where social distancing is not possible that masks be worn.
This photo was taken at the entrance of the Barracks on Burt Street upon building completion in 1911.
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The modern Australian celebration of Mother's Day actually grew out of calls for peace and anti-war campaigns following the American Civil War (1861-65).
In 1924 Janet Heyden, from Leichhardt in Sydney, started the Australian tradition of giving gifts to mums on Mother’s Day. She realised many mother’s had lost son’s, brother’s, husbands and loved ones during the First World War.
Heyden was on the committee of the Home for Destitute Women and Children in Strathfield, and she was visiting a patient who had been transferred to Newington State Home.
“That was when I decided something should be done to brighten the lonely lives of the mothers there. I organised gifts for them on Mother’s Day,” Heyden told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1954.
“Even a little remembrance like hairpins (they wouldn’t be much good these days, would they?), a hankie or a cake of soap meant a lot to people like that.”
But then Heyden thought – why stop there? She appealed to the wider public – through the local newspapers – and soon the gifts were pouring in.
“The late Alderman Dyer, who was Mayor of Leichhardt, used to drive me around to the old mothers of the district with my gift parcels."
"For seven years in succession the appeal through the newspapers made sure that hundreds of mothers who would otherwise have been forgotten received a Mother's Day gift," she said. "Today, of course, a gift for mother is just a natural thing."
Heyden's tradition of honouring mums with a gift and a card soon caught on, and families from around Australia were celebrating Mother's Day. #mothersday #gifts #campaigning #womensupportingwomen #celebrating #commemorating #philanthropy #generosity
Sheila Mary McClemans was born on 3 May 1909 at Claremont and attended Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia. McClemans was one of the earliest women law graduates in Western Australia and obtained her articles from Stawell, Hardwick & Forman. In her first year, however, her only source of income was coaching secondary school students at night.
McClemans was admitted to the Bar on 16 May 1933 but could not find a law firm that would engage her. Consequently, she and her friend and fellow graduate, Molly Kingston, founded Kingston & McClemans, the first all-female law firm in the State. Particularly interested in helping women with their legal problems, she became the first woman barrister to appear before the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
McClemans enlisted in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) on 11 January 1943 at HMAS Leeuwin, Western Australia. Her excellent leadership and organisational skills earned her rapid promotion, being appointed Second Officer in July and First Officer in November 1943. In January 1944 she was appointed to administer the WRANS, and in August, she was appointed as the Director of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service. She was promoted to Chief Officer in January 1945 and was selected to represent the WRANS at the 8 June 1946 Victory March in London.
In 1953 she set up her own practice and built up one of Perth's largest divorce practices. She became secretary of the Law Society of Western Australia (1961-65) and administrator of its legal aid scheme (1961-70).
McClemans was National President of the Australian Federation of University Women (1950-52), a member of the Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia (1977-80), and a member of the Parole Board of Western Australia (1964-84). She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, in 1977. She was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1978 New Years' Honours List "for services to law and women's affairs".
Sheila McClemans died on 10 June 1988.
This portrait was painted by Nora Heysen in 1943 and is part of the collection at the Australian War Memorial.
