The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of Superintendent Vera Harriet Morton, Red Cross, outside a hospital tent at the 2/9 Australian General Hospital. Superintendent Morton was appointed Matron of the Red Cross Rouna Convalescent Home when it was established in 1931 and was given permission to remain in New Guinea after Australian civilians were evacuated in early 1942. She returned to Australia when the home was requisitioned by Australian forces. Superintendent Morton returned to New Guinea as a representative of the Red Cross in 1943 to establish a Red Cross centre at the 2/9 Australian General Hospital.
NEW GUINEA. MRS VERA MORTON WITH SGT. STOKES OF AUBURN, VIC., WORKING A HAND LOOM ON WHICH HE IS MAKING A SCARF. MRS MORTON WAS THE LAST WOMAN TO BE EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, AND IS NOW BACK AS A RED
Aitape, New Guinea. Superintendent of the Red Cross, Miss Doris Gale of Bellevue Hill, NSW, serves morning tea to patients in the Red Cross recreation hut on Australian General Hospital premises.
NEW GUINEA. MRS VERA MORTON, THE LAST WOMAN TO BE EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, IS NOW BACK AGAIN AS A RED CROSS WORKER. HERE SHE IS WITH SOME OF THE LADS SHE HAS TAUGHT THE ART OF MAKING USEFUL HANDICRA
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-05. B2/359 ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT MRS. K. STEPHENS OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ATTACHED TO THE 2/1ST GENERAL HOSPITAL, HANDS VX30133 DRIVER J. ALLEN, 2/3RD
PORT MORESBY, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-05. B2/301 SUPERINTENDENT MISS S. GRAHAM, A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ATTACHED TO THE 2/1ST GENERAL HOSPITAL (1), HANDS NX129946 GUNNER PREE, 2/4TH F
LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE T. RYAN, AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL WOMEN'S SERVICE (3) AND THE RED CROSS SOCIETY ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT R.A. PARROTT (6), FAREWELL PATIENTS AT 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL
