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Nursing staff with patients at Westwood Sanatorium early 1920s DescriptionNursing staff with patients relaxing in the garden at the Westwood Sanatorium in the early 1920s. Westwood was opened in 1919 principally to treat Miner's Phthisis. However, it soon became a specialist hospital to treat cases of tuberculosis. The person second from right is the Superintendent Sister Ida Marie Axelsen who was appointed to the Sanatorium from its opening in August 1919 after serving for several years in the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War 1. She left the position in early August 1923. Ida Axelsen was born in Tiaro in 1878 and trained at the Maryborough General Hospital. source: achha.org.au/detailed.php?num=1

Private Charles Bailey is remembered on the Lives of the First World War website at livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/125361

Private Charles Bailey has no known grave, and is listed on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL for the missing.

Queensland Soldiers' Comforts Fund, a working subdivision of the Australian Comforts Fund, was established during World War I. The purpose of the Fund was to provide comforts to soldiers on active service. This was achieved via appeals for donations, public subscriptions, and organising fundraising activities. Numerous branches of the Queensland Soldiers' Comforts Fund were spread throughout Queensland, Australia during this period. One of the committee's first activities was to appeal for public donations of various items that could be dispatched to soldiers overseas in time for Christmas. Accepted items included shirts, undershirts with short sleeves, mufflers, balaclava caps, handkerchiefs, writing pads, envelopes, pencils, pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, bootlaces, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, Vaseline, sweets, coffee, games, books and magazines.[2][3] By the end of World War I, the Queensland Soldiers' Comfort Fund declared that since October 1915 they had packed and shipped 5,010 cases to soldiers overseas, which included 17,324 shirts and 37,983 pairs of socks. Queensland Soldiers' Comfort Fund oversaw several fundraising operations: The Coo-ee Cafe was a volunteer-run cafe, War-time Kitchen operated by volunteers, Jam Shop, Refreshment stall at the Brisbane Exhibition selling sandwiches, fruit and soft drinks with proceeds going toward the Fund. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Soldiers%27_Comforts_Fund