The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two hospitals, an infirmary and a dispensary, in South Vietnam, recently received gifts of medical supplies worth a total of one-hundred-thousand dollars from the Australian Force, Vietnam. The gifts followed the closing of the 1st Australian Field Hospital, Vung Tau, in Phuoc Tuy Province. The 1st Australian Field Hospital was the Australian Army's main centre for the treatment of sick and wounded soldiers in South Vietnam. With its closure, large sections of its medical stores became available for donation, because temperature changes or expiry dates would have made them unserviceable if returned to Australia. 58060 Major Rodney Ian Walton of Bexley, NSW, the Officer Commanding 1st Field Medical Equipment Depot, supervised packing of the gifts ready for delivery. Bien Hoa hospital, where the Australian civilian surgical aid team is based, received the bulk of the supplies. The items were checked over on arrival at the hospital warehouse by Major Walton and the leader of the surgical aid team, Doctor Reginald Lord of Greenwich, NSW. While Australian soldiers and Vietnamese civilians continued to unload the stores, the donation was discussed by Doctor Lord and the Director of the Bien Hoa Hospital, Doctor Tho, right. Doctor Tho then joined Major Walton to inspect the gift. Other centres to receive the medical supplies are the Cho-Ray Hospital, in Saigon, the War Veterans Paraplegic Infirmary, in Vung Tau, and the Vietnamese Army Signals School Dispensary, also in Vung Tau. Some of the supplies for the Bien Hoa hospital had to travel in a field refrigerator. Finally, the official handover, by the senior medical officer on the Australian Force Headquarters, 18092 Lieutenant Colonel Keith John Arthur Fleming of Mansfield, Qld, right.
Two hospitals, an infirmary and a dispensary in Vietnam received a total of $100,000 worth of medical supplies from the Australian Force Vietnam (AFV) following the closing down of the 1st Australian
Chatting with paraplegics at their War Veterans' Infirmary at Vung Tau, is the Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Field Hospital (1AFH), Colonel (Col) D. C. Cook of Castlecrag, NSW (centre). Col
South Vietnam. November 1971. Leader of the Australian civilian surgical team at the Bein Hoa Hospital, Dr Reginald Lord of Greenwich, NSW (centre), signs for medical supplies donated to the Hospital
VUNG TAU, SOUTH VIETNAM. SIGN OUTSIDE THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN FIELD HOSPITAL, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL COMPLEX, SHOWING THE LAYOUT OF THE BUILDINGS.
VUNG TAU, SOUTH VIETNAM. SIGN OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN FIELD HOSPITAL, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL COMPLEX, SHOWING CONDITIONS OF ENTRY.
In Vietnam thirty seven wounded Australian soldiers in an American hospital at Vung Tau, received gifts from pretty girls during an official visit by the deputy mayor of Vung Tau. The commander of the
