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ANZAC Girls
''ANZAC Girls'' is an Australian television drama series that first screened on ABC1 on 10 August 2014. The six-part series tells the rarely told true stories of the nurses serving with the Australian Army Nursing Service at Alexandria, Lemnos, and the Western Front (World War I), Western Front during the First World War. The series is based on Peter Rees' book ''The Other ANZACs'' as well as diaries, letters, photographs and historical documents. The series was written by Felicity Packard and Niki Aken, produced by Screentime, and filmed in South Australia. Cast Source: * Anna McGahan as Sister Olive Haynes * Caroline Craig as Grace Wilson, Matron Grace Wilson * Georgia Flood as Sister Alice Ross-King * Laura Brent as Sister Elsie Sheppard Cook, Elsie Cook * Antonia Prebble as Sister Hilda Steele * Todd Lasance as Major Sydney "Syd" Cook * Dustin Clare as Lieutenant Harry Moffitt * Brandon McClelland (actor), Brandon McClelland as Lieutenant Norval 'Pat' Dooley * John Waters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Period Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was one of the main Theatre (warfare), theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the Imperial German Army, German Army opened the Western Front by German invasion of Belgium (1914), invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in Third Republic of France, France. The German advance was halted with the First Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trench warfare, trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, the position of which changed little except during early 1917 and again in 1918. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several offensives along this Front (military), front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. Entrenchments, machine gun emplacements, barbed wire, and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mayer (actor)
Charles Anthony Martin Mayer is an English actor. He has been living and working in Australia since 2012. Early life and education Charles Anthony Martin Mayer was born in South Tidworth, Hampshire, England. In 1992 he entered Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned into the Welsh Guards. He spent four years as an officer in Northern Ireland, two years as an instructor at the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick, two years on ceremonial duties in London, and a further two years in Tidworth. After completing ten years of service, Mayer left the army, decided to become an actor, and entered the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2002. useless link Film Mayer appeared in Kojo Productions' '' The Pack'' (2015), directed by Nick Robinson, and in 2017 Luke Shanahan's ''Rabbit''. In writer/director Daniel Hsia's feature film ''Shanghai Calling'' (2012), Mayer plays the supporting role of Jensen. In Mandarin Films' ''Ip Man 2'' (2010), Mayer plays the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fiaschi
Thomas Henry Fiaschi (Italian: Tommaso Enrico Fiaschi; 31 May 1853 – 17 April 1927) was an Italian-Australian surgeon. He served with both Italian and Australian armed forces, seeing active service as a military surgeon in the First Italo-Ethiopian War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Early life Fiaschi was born on 31 May 1853 in Florence, Italy, then within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was the son of Clarissa (née Fisher) and Lodovico Fiaschi. His father was a mathematics professor at the University of Florence, while his mother was an Englishwoman who had worked as a tutor to members of the Corsini family. Medical career Fiaschi received his initial medical training at the University of Florence. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 21, initially spending time at the Palmer River Goldfields in the colony of Queensland. He subsequently settled in New South Wales where he was a house surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. He returned to Italy to undertake further t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Waters (born 1948) is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Scottish-born British actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School'' for 18 years. Career Music Waters was born in 1948Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] in London, England. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass guitar player with 1960s London-based blues band The Riots before travelling to Australia, initially for an extended working holiday and then eventually settling there permanently. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norval 'Pat' Dooley
Norval Henry "Pat" Dooley (3 October 1893 – 1978) was an Australian Army officer and leading solicitor. His service at Gallipoli and in France, and his courtship of nurse Olive Haynes was portrayed in the 2014 ABC Television miniseries ''ANZAC Girls''. Early life Dooley was born in Bendigo, but his parents, Mr and Mrs W.H. Dooley, later moved the family, which included a sister, Beryl, to Ivanhoe, Victoria. Dooley attended the University of Melbourne, where he studied law. In 1914, in his third year, Dooley entered residence at Trinity College, where he was a successful athlete. He competed regularly in walking events for the Melbourne University Athletics Club (MUAC), and in 1917, one newspaper described him as "the well-known and popular M.U.A.C. walker". In 1914, he was selected for the One Mile Walk for the Victorian team to compete at the Australasian Athletics Championships. A year later, when the Melbourne University Athletic Club Championships were run in May 1915, it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon McClelland (actor)
Brandon McClelland (born Penrith, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian stage, television and film actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Pat Dooley in ANZAC Girls (for which he was Logie-nominated) and Hendrix Cunningham in Totally Completely Fine. Early life McClelland was born in Penrith, New South Wales before moving to Batemans Bay, New South Wales Batemans Bay is a town in the South Coast region of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Batemans Bay is administered by the Eurobodalla Shire council. The town is situated on the shores of an estuary formed where the Clyde River meets the ..., his long-time home town. He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2010, and graduated in 2012. Credits Film and Television Theatre Awards and nominations References External links * IMDB Profile: Brandon McClellan {{DEFAULTSORT:McClelland, Brandon Australian male television actors Living people National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Clare
Dustin Clare (born 2 January 1982) is an Australian actor. He is known for his starring role as Gannicus in the Starz series '' Spartacus: Gods of the Arena'', '' Spartacus: Vengeance'' and '' Spartacus: War of the Damned'', and as Riley Ward on the series '' McLeod's Daughters''. Personal life Clare is from Australia. Born in Grafton, he grew up in both Ballina, NSW and Maclean, NSW. Clare studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, he graduated in 2004. He served as a 2012 ambassador for the Warrambeen Film Festival. He is also an ambassador for the White Ribbon Foundation. Career From 2006 to 2007, Clare starred as Riley Ward in 48 episodes of the series '' McLeod's Daughters''. In 2009, he played Sydney hit-man and gangland figure Christopher Dale Flannery in '' Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities'' and also as Sean in the Showtime Network (Australia) series '' Satisfaction''. His global fame occurred when he starred as Gannicus, the champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Lasance
Todd James Lasance (born 18 February 1985) is an Australian actor, best recognised for his roles in Australian television including Aden Jefferies on ''Home and Away'', Cam Jackson on '' Rescue: Special Ops'', Ben McMahon on '' Crownies'' and Major Sydney "Syd" Cook on '' ANZAC Girls''. He has also appeared in American television roles, such as Julius Caesar on '' Spartacus: War of the Damned'', Julian on '' The Vampire Diaries'' and Edward Clariss / Rival on '' The Flash''. In 2020, he partnered with his ''Spartacus'' co-star Liam McIntyre to create the gaming series ''Get Good'' for the ''CouchSoup'' YouTube channel, following a charity livestream benefiting Black Summer. Career In 2006, Lasance made his acting debut on the teen drama series '' Blue Water High''. In 2007, he was cast in the Seven Network soap opera series ''Home and Away'' as Aden Jefferies, which is generally recognized as his breakout role. In October 2007, Seven announced he would become a regular for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Sheppard Cook
Elsie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder * Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albanian culture and affairs * Hahm Eun-jung (born 1988), South Korean singer and actress known professional as Elsie, a member of T-ara Places United States * Elsie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Elsie, Michigan, a village * Elsie, Nebraska, village * Lake Elsie, in North Dakota Canada * Elsie Island, Nunavut * Elsie Lake, in British Columbia Music * ''Elsie'' (album), the 2011 début album by The Horrible Crowes * ''Elsie'' (musical) ** "Elsie", a song from ''Elsie'' (musical) Other uses * USS ''Elsie III'' (SP-708), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919, later USC&G ''Elsie III'', a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ship from 1919 to 1944 * Elsie (robot), an autonomous robot built by William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ross-King
Alys Appleford, ( Ross King; 5 August 1887 – 17 August 1968), known as Alice Ross-King, was an Australian civilian and military nurse who took part in both World Wars. She has been described as Australia's most decorated woman. During the First World War she served in hospitals in Egypt and France and was one of only seven Australian nurses to be awarded the Military Medal for gallantry. In the Second World War she held a senior post within the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. In 1949 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award made by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Early life Ross-King was born in Ballarat, Victoria. Her parents, Archibald Ross King and Henrietta King (née Ward), named her Alys Ross King. Finnie (1988) The family moved to Perth but her father and two brothers drowned in an accident and Henrietta King moved, with Alys, to Melbourne. Nursing training was undertaken at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and, by 1914, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Wilson
Grace Margaret Wilson (25 June 1879 – 12 January 1957) was a high-ranked nurse in the Australian Army during World War I and the first years of World War II. Wilson was born in Brisbane, and completed her initial training as a nurse in 1908. After the outbreak of World War I she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and subsequently transferred to the First Australian Imperial Force. From 1915 until 1919 she was the principal matron of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. She served as the temporary matron-in-chief in the AIF Headquarters, London from late 1917 until early 1918. Wilson returned to Australia in 1920 and left the AIF to work in civilian hospitals. She was appointed the matron-in-chief of the AANS in 1925, and in September 1940 joined the Second Australian Imperial Force. She served in the Middle East until August 1941, when she returned to Australia due to ill health. She left the Army the next month, but from September 1943 worked in the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
