Kit McNaughton
{{Short description|Australian nurse}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name= Catherine Ryan
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|caption= Kit McNaughton in 1916
|birth_name= Catherine McNaughton
|nickname= Kit
|birth_date= March 1884
|birth_place= Geelong, Victoria
|death_date= {{death date and age|1953|02|14|1884|03|df=yes}}
|death_place= Werribee, Victoria
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|allegiance= Australia
|branch= Australian Imperial Force
|serviceyears= 1915–1919
|rank= Sister
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|unit= Australian Army Nursing Service
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|battles= First World War
|awards= Royal Red Cross
Mentioned in Despatches
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Catherine "Kit" Ryan, {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100|RRC}} ({{nee}} McNaughton; March 1884 – 14 February 1953) was a decorated Australian nurse who served in the First World War. She kept a detailed diary of her experiences, the basis of which was later published by Janet Butler as Kitty's War (2013).
Military service
McNaughton was mentioned in despatches in 1917,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1589273 |title=Somme Battles|newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=3 January 1917 |accessdate=13 September 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1919.{{cite news|title=Presentation to Returned Soldiers|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/74218791|newspaper=Werribee Shire Banner|location=Werribee|date=11 December 1919|page=2}}
In popular culture
McNaughton's diaries were the subject of the 2013 book Kitty's War, written by historian Janet Butler. The book won the New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize in 2013 and the WK Hancock Prize by the Australian Historical Association in 2014.
McNaughton was one of the six Australians whose war experiences were presented in The War That Changed Us, a four-part television documentary series about Australia's involvement in the First World War.{{cite web|title=The War That Changed Us|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327638/|website=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=12 September 2014}}{{cite web|title=The War That Changed Us|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/war-that-changed-us/|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=12 September 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912081512/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/war-that-changed-us/|archivedate=12 September 2014|url-status=live}} Her war experiences also formed the basis of the characters in the ANZAC Girls television series.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last=Butler |first=Janet | title=Kitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton | publication-date=2013 | publisher=University of Queensland Press |place=St Lucia | isbn=978-0-7022-4967-9 }}
External links
- {{cite web|title=World War 1 Military service: Catherine McNaughton|url=http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1957706|publisher=National Archives of Australia|date=1914–1920|accessdate=12 September 2014}}
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Category:20th-century Australian women writers
Category:20th-century Australian writers
Category:20th-century Australian diarists
Category:Australian military nurses
Category:Australian women nurses
Category:Australian military personnel of World War I
Category:Female nurses in World War I
Category:Members of the Royal Red Cross