History Series / ANZACGirls

->''"If only we could do more and had more to give."''

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Alice and Hilda become extremely close as the war goes on, with their interactions sometimes seeming more romantic than simply friendly.

'''''ANZAC Girls''''' (2014) is an Australian miniseries detailing the lives and exploits of five real-life members of the Australian Army Nursing Service during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Based on the nonfiction book ''The Other [=ANZACs=]'' by Peter Rees, it was made for the centenary of the war's outbreak and details the harsh, brutal, and bloody work of wartime nursing.

* Sister Hilda Steele (Antonia Prebble) -- a New Zealander who joined up with the Australians at war's outbreak, she is sweet, shy, and lacking self-confidence at first; she too comes into her own during wartime but never loses her gentle spirit.

* {{Adorkable}}: Bespectacled lawyer and budding Anglican priest Pat Dooley first gets preacher's daughter Olive's interest by pinpointing where in the Bible exactly Paul recounts his visit to Egypt -- Second Acts, for the record -- and is generally a dork of the first order. [[spoiler:She marries him.]]

* BigDamnKiss: This is how Olive informs Pat Dooley that she does, in fact, return his affections.

-->-- '''Grace Wilson'''

* FirstNameBasis: Olive calls Pat Dooley "Pat" for the first time about two seconds before [[spoiler:she unceremoniously and ''very'' enthusiastically answers his earlier LoveConfession with a rather dramatic snog]].

All five were real women, with Wilson and Ross King in particular seen as giants in the history of Australian military nursing. The series covers their lives from their first deployment at the very beginning of war all the way through to Armistice Day, and details what happened to them afterward.

All five were real women, with Wilson and Ross King in particular being seen as giants in the history of Australian military nursing. The series covers their lives from their first deployment at the very beginning of war all the way through to Armistice Day, and details what happened to them afterward.

'''''ANZAC Girls''''' (2014) is an Australian miniseries detailing the lives and exploits of five real-life members of the Australian Army Nursing Service during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. Based on the nonfiction book ''The Other [=ANZACs=]'' by Peter Rees, it was made for the centenary of the war's outbreak and details the harsh, brutal, and bloody work of wartime nursing.

[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: Grace Wilson, Olive Haynes, Alice Ross-King, Elsie Cook, and Hilda Steele]]

* DeathNotification: [[spoiler:Grace]] doesn't even have to open the telegram before her hands start shaking, because she knows exactly what she's looking at.

** Grace, twice; upon receiving the news of [[spoiler:her brother's death]] (she ultimately breaks down in private, but not before soldiering on through a whole convoy of wounded), and at the ANZAC Day memorial service (she can't hold back the tears then either, but she refuses to break down sobbing).
** Olive, several times -- most notably when Grace is seconded to London.
** Hilda, after being roundly scolded by one of the Queen Alexandra's nurses simply for doing things differently. She manages to hold back ''most'' of the tears.