Sent to Port Moresby in October 1942, Barnes served with the 105th Casualty Clearing Station. She returned to Australia in March and initially worked at the 109th AGH, Adelaide. From October 1941 to January 1942 she was attached to the 2/4th Field Ambulance at Tripoli, Syria. Later rejoining the 2/2nd at Kantara, Egypt, she nursed casualties from the fighting in Greece, Crete and North Africa. She served at Gaza Ridge and Nazareth, Palestine, where she was seconded to a British hospital. Posted to the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital as a staff nurse, she embarked for the Middle East in April 1940. The army recorded that she had blue eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion. On 20 December 1939 Barnes joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, Australian Imperial Force. She commenced her nursing training at the Children’s Hospital in July 1928 and graduated as a general nurse in February 1932. Educated at Methodist Ladies’ College, Kathleen was head prefect in 1925. Kathleen Hope Barnes (1909-1981), nurse, was born on at Cottesloe, Perth, fifth daughter of James Barnes, an Irish-born storekeeper, and his wife Agnes Kirkwood Burns, née Patrick, who came from Scotland.
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