000580 Accession Number: 000580

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Group portrait of nurses of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital, en route to Gaza Ridge, around the piano onboard the troop transport Empress of Japan. Identified from left to right: NX276 Staff Nurse Gertrude Mallaby Cumming (later Cockburn) from Forster, NSW; NX274 Staff Nurse Phyllis Leeton Simpkins from Kandos, NSW; NX275 Staff Nurse Ray Alberta Joseph, from Sydney NSW; NX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle (later Lieutenant Colonel) from North Bondi, NSW; NX305 Staff Nurse Mona Josephine Prindable from Camperdown, NSW; NX295 Staff Nurse Ethne Doris Swanson from Casino, NSW (at piano); NX307 Staff Nurse Grace Beatrice Marshall (later Lamble) from Mosman, NSW; NX288 Staff Nurse Christina Annie McLeod from Coffs Harbour, NSW; NX294 Staff Nurse Cecilia MacFarlane (later Barr) from Kensington, NSW; and NX287 Staff Nurse Doris Helen Hughes from Liverpool, NSW.

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Accession Number
000580
Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
c January 1940
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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