The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Rectangular acrylic or perspex name badge with brass stickpin glued to reverse. Base colour is green, with white lettering ('DOAN GIAI PHAU UC DAI LOI', or 'Australian Surgery Team') and 'DOT ANGELL' bordering a yellow kangaroo design.
Name badge worn by Dorothy (Dot) Angell when serving as a civilian nurse with the Australian Surgical Teams at Bien Hoa in Vietnam from 1 January to 8 April 1967. The severe lack of medical facilities and staff in Vietnam led to South Vietnamese Government to request urgent civilian medical aid through the USAID and SEATO programmes. Australia responded by sending three teams; one from Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1964, which operated out of Long Xuyen; one from Alfred Hospital from January 1966, which was based in Bien Hoa and a third In November 1966 located at Vung Tau. Dot Angell served with the team at Bien Hoa and wrote home in early January 1967: 'Since the beginning of January we have performed 116 operations, and when you consider that for most of that time only one theatre has been in working order it is absolutely phenomenal. The work is hard because beside nursing, one has to be general slushy and mop and scrub to try and keep the place reasonably clean'. Angell has since written a doctoral thesis based on her expereinces, entitled "Breaking the Silence: The Experience of the Civilian Nurses in Vietnam", published by La Trobe University Library, Melbourne.
Rectangular Perspex name badge with brass stickpin glued to reverse. Base colour is green, impressed from the back with white lettering ('DOAN GIAI PHAU UC DAI LOI', or 'Australian Surgery Team') and
Rectangular perspex name badge with a yellow kangaroo in the centre and the words 'DOAN GIAI PHAU UC DAI LOI' (Australian Surgery Team in Vietnamese) and 'JENNY DYASON' in white. The back of the badge
Zippo brand chrome-plated brass flip-top cigarette lighter. 'CARMEL JORGENSEN' is engraved on the front. A Map of Vietnam with the names of 12 cities and towns is engraved on the back. This lighter
Commissioned by the Australian Civilian Medical/Surgical Teams Vietnam 1964-1972 as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program. This plaque was dedicated on 26 March 2010 at a c
A varnished wooden shield to which a metal plate has been attached with jewellers pins. Engraved on the plate is a geometric border pattern and the words, 'AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL TEAM January 1966 TO Dece
Khaki bag with a round base and drawstring opening. The bag is stamped on one side with 'BAG, PATIENTS, EFFECTS', and sewn below this is a blank white cotton label. Stamped on the other side is the US
