An earlier version of this paper was originally presented under the title, Close Your Eyes and Think of England: Australian Nurses in the Boer War, at the Post Graduate Conference, School of Historical Studies (Monash University), North Melbourne, 2003. Additional material was taken from PhD Thesis, “… So Give Three Cheers For Our Sisters”, the role and status of Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. 2010.)