The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 'CARMEL JORGENSEN' with 'AUSTRALIAN SURGICAL TEAM' bordering a yellow kangaroo design.
Name badge worn by Carmel Jorgensen (later Hurst) when serving as a civilian nursing sister with the Australian Surgical Teams at Bien Hoa in Vietnam.
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 a succession of surgical teams which operated out of several centres throughout the country. Carmel Jorgensen arrived in Vietnam in October 1967 with a team from Royal Brisbane Hospital and served as a nursing sister at Bien Hoa until September 1968.
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
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'
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
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
Rectangular green cotton bag with drawstring opening sewn into the top secured by two red ties. The bag is formed from a single piece of fabric that is folded and hemed in the inside on both sides. S
Social gathering of staff from one of the Australian Surgical Teams and local Vietnamese staff at the hospital at Bien Hoa. The severe lack of medical facilities and staff in Vietnam led the South Vie
