P02044.008 Accession Number: P02044.008

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Sister Marjorie Haynes, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) (left), and Sister Betty Crocker RAANC, rugged up against the cold weather in their winter uniforms. These winter uniforms were made in either Britian, the United States or Canada as Australia was not making such uniforms at this time. These Sisters were two of the three Australian Sisters in control of the evacuation of British Commonwealth patients who were transported to the British Commonwealth Communications Zone Medical Unit in Seoul, Korea, collected from here by the Transport Division of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) staffed by the RAAF Nursing Service and transported to Iwakuni, Japan. From there they were transported to the Ambulance Train Hospital which was staffed by nurses rostered from the British Commonwealth Hospital. Sister Crocker handed the wounded over to Sister Natalie Oldham at Kimpo Airport, Seoul. They were then transported to Iwakuni, Japan, for the train journey to Kure.

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Accession Number
P02044.008
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
January 1953
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor B Lawrence
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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