The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Italy. C. 1944-04. Since Alamein more than 2,000 surgical operations have been carried out in the well equipped little operating theatre of a RAF mobile field hospital attached to the Desert Air Force, now in Italy. Only twice during the past three years has it been accommodated in buildings. Nearly all the work of the hospital has been done under canvas. The hospital's equipment has been augmented by captured axis supplies including a 32 seater bus and an ambulance. It has surgical equipment and specialised electrical appliances normally available in a large hospital, including an operating theatre, electrical panel into which can be plugged various appliances ranging from an Aldis lamp to a diathermy. The operating theatre is floodlit by two arc lamps captured from the enemy at Tobruk. The hospital possesses a well-equipped laboratory wagon built on a three ton truck, designed by Corporal H. Harding of Warrington, laboratory assistant, who before the war was on the staff of the Lancashire County Hospital. His assistant is Leading Aircraftman H. Skiffington of Heswal Cheshire. Here a patient has warts removed by Flight Lieutenant F. B. Cockett, who is using an American Cautery set captured from the Italians in the invasion of Italy.
NX125960 Lieutenant (Lt) Bessie Violet Moxham (left) and VX112261 Lt Kathleen Pennefather (right) sterilising surgical equipment in the operating theatre at the 129th Australian General Hospital (129
The operating theatre installed on the hospital ship Manunda. The Adelaide Steamship Company's vessel had been requisitioned in May 1940 and converted from interstate liner to a hospital ship with mod
Myola 1, Papua, c. 1942-10-17. A tent fly has been used in the improvisation of a makeshift operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. The theatre contains as o
Rodez, France. 1917-06. A surgical operation about to begin in an operating theatre of French hospital no. 23, 4th section, region 16 in Rodez, in the Midi during World War 1. From left: Voluntary Aid
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-13. LIEUTENANT COLONEL C.A.M. RENOU, OFFICER COMMANDING SURGICAL SECTION, 119 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OPERATING ON A PATIENT IN THE OPERATING THEATRE.
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-13. LIEUTENANT COLONEL C.A.M. RENOU, OFFICER COMMANDING SURGICAL SECTION, 119 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OPERATING ON A PATIENT IN THE OPERATING THEATRE.
