ABC · Ended

ANZAC Girls

Drama, War, History · 2014 · Rated 7.4/10

Last aired: S1 E6, Courage · 2014-09-14

Honouring the Centenary of the commencement of WW1, ANZAC Girls is a moving new six-part series based on the unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Cast

Anna McGahan Olive Haynes

Antonia Prebble Hilda Steele

Caroline Craig Grace Wilson

Georgia Flood Alice Ross-King

Laura Brent Elsie Cook

Sara West Clarice Daley

Season 1

E1 Adventure 2014-08-10 · 60 min A group of New Zealand nurses arrive in Egypt and soon realize that war is not quite the 'splendid adventure' they initially thought as they deal with convoy after convoy of dead and dying men from the botched Gallipoli campaign.

E2 Duty 2014-08-17 · 60 min Overcoming intense hardship on the Greek island of Lemnos, Olive and Grace care for the injured troops from the botched August Offensive while Elsie fights to nurse her wounded husband Syd.

E3 Endurance 2014-08-24 · 60 min In Egypt, Alice and Elsie are confronted by the heart-wrenching reality of love during wartime, which reaches a breaking point for Elsie when she is forced to choose between her husband, Syd and her role abroad in the AANS. Whilst enduring the horrific conditions on Lemnos, Olive faces her greatest test of faith and resolve.

E4 Love 2014-08-31 · 60 min After being seconded to a British hospital in France, the girls come face-to-face with the snobbery of the British nursing staff, inciting them to reflect on their own national identity. Meanwhile, Alice is forced to face the emotional brutality of war as Harry is believed to have been killed at Fromelles.

E5 Mateship 2014-09-07 · 60 min Alice struggles to accept that Harry may have been killed; Hilda discovers an aptitude for anesthetics; Olive is proposed to by Pat; and Elsie returns to the war as part of the Croix Rouge.

E6 Courage 2014-09-14 · 60 min Alice, Hilda and Elsie are stationed only kilometers from the front with the possibility of death edging ever closer, and the war seeming like it will never end.

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