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WWI nurse’s harrowing account: ‘Shrapnel cuts off whole limbs’

News Corp AustraliaThe Courier-Mail
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Even as German shells fell around her makeshift hospital in Belgium, Evelyn Trestrail put the safety of her patients first.

The young South Australian-trained nurse worked under direct enemy fire at a hospital established in an old concert hall in Antwerp in the first year of World War I, her extraordinary courage later officially recognised by a bravery medal.

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