Peter Rees. By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history.