Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

15 Introduction ‘It gradually got that you were free’ Sister of the Australian Army Nursing Service plays with convalescing soldiers as others watch on, May 1916. Located on the outskirts of Cairo, the military hospital was created after losses in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16. Not only English women played the game in wartime. (Australian War Memorial, P04752.001)