The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bloemfontein, South Africa. c.1900. Service personnel, including a medical orderly, and civilians stand beside the carriages of an armoured train at a railway siding. The train possibly formed part of the 2nd Stationary Hospital on its way to Johannesburg.
An armoured train at Bloemfontein. Anne Mary Pocock was born into a farming family on 20 July 1863 in Dalby, Queensland. Known as “Bessie”, she worked for some years as a domestic servant in Grafton.
South Africa. c.1900. Service personnel including a medical orderly lying on top of a covered railway carriage at a siding in a country area. The train was part of No. 2 Stationary Hospital on its way
HEIDELBERG, VIC. 1943-10-08. A MEDICAL ORDERLY HELPING A WOUNDED AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER DOWN FROM THE HOSPITAL TRAIN AT THE RAILWAY SIDING AT THE 115TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL.
SOUTH AFRICA. C 1900. 'TROOPS EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT'. BRITISH SOLDIERS STAND ON A RAILWAY LINE BESIDE CARRIAGES FILLED WITH MEN AND EQUIPMENT. (ORIGINAL GLASS LANTERN SLIDE HELD BY ANGLESEA BARRACKS,
SOUTH AFRICA. C 1900. LOCATION UNKNOWN. HOSPITAL TRAIN AT A SIDING. A NURSE AND OFFICER STAND ON THE TRAIN TALKING TO A SOLDIER BELOW. (PHOTOGRAPHERS: UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD. ORIGINALS IN AWM ARCHIVA
Johannesburg, South Africa. c.1900. Interior view of the Masonic Hall used by No. 2 Stationary Hospital featuring nurses, patients, military personnel and others in civilian clothes.
Members of the 3rd Australian General Hospital (3AGH) on board the train to Cairo, whilst other members stand near the carriage. A young Egyptian boy sits on the tracks with his shoe shine kit beside