Collection related to the service of Elvin Minna Wittwer Accession Number: P09909.020

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Informal portrait of SX13081 Sister (Sr) Elvin Wittwer, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), with local boys in Singapore. Enlisting in the AANS on 7 February 1941, Sr Wittwer served with the 2/13th Australian General Hospital. Sr Wittwer was commissioned as a Captain prior to the end of the Second World War. She was discharged from the AANS on 3 August 1948.

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Accession Number
P09909.020
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
1942
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor D Zwar
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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