In January 1963, I travelled by train from Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, to the country town of Mount Gambier with about four other girls. We were in our late teens, and enthusiastically embarking on an amazing adventure. We had all enrolled to do our nursing training in the relatively new hospital at Mount Gambier.
Few of us really knew what we were getting ourselves into - we were filled with excitement and trepidation.
Not all that started this journey completed our training, but some did, and some of us have kept in touch over the years and several 'reunions' have been held in Adelaide.
Hopefully this site will reconnect many of us.
In the 1960's Mount Gambier Hospital in South Australia was the training school for nurses. It was a requirement that 'student nurses' lived in the nurses home, and a strong bond was formed by the women who did their nursing training at that time. This site intends to reconnect the nurses from the Mount, and tell their stories.
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