2017 $1 Women In War A Century of Service PNC

During the Great War, more than 3,000 Australian nurses joined the war effort, 2,546 served abroad with the Australian Army Nursing Service, while others served with organisations such as the Red Cross. Women also made an immense contribution from the home front. They knitted, stitched, cooked, packaged, and despatched comforts to help ease the hardship endured by soldiers on the frontline. The European winter of 1916-17 was particularly bitter, and more than one million pairs of socks were knitted for troops, dispatched with 65,000 sheepskin jackets.