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City of Melville Museums > Records

Oral History - Waghorn, Margaret Laura

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Melville Sound and Vision Collection

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Oral history of Margaret Waghorn, ex Heathcote Hospital nurse. 130 minutes long.

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Margaret started nursing at 15 years of age in 1945 after falsifying her birth certificate to show the age of 18.

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cwa-org-137-OH139

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