The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Palestine (?). c.1940-11. While travelling on leave, a nurse, asleep in the back of a car, rests her head on the shoulder of a sleeping officer attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. (Original nitrate negative held in AWM Archive Store)
Cairo, Egypt (?). c. 1940-11. NX65289 Corporal Robert J. Bevir (right), attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda, watches as Staff Sergeant Austin (?) has his shoes polished by local childre
Thursday Island. c.1940-08. NX65289 Corporal Robert John Bevir in the orderly room aboard the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. Bevir was killed on 19 February 1942 while aboard the Manunda when
Sydney. c.1940-10. A unit on the wharf preparing to embark on the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. The Manunda was bombed in Darwin harbour on 19 February 1942 during the first Japanese air rai
c.1941. Nurses attached to 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda sit and relax with a cup of tea talking to some Australian servicemen. In the foreground is Sister Vere Wilkinson, Australian Army Nur
Darwin. c.1940-08. NX65289 Corporal Robert J. Bevir (right) and two unidentified men stand next to a stone on which has been painted the words "Adolf Hitler died 1940". Bevir was killed on 19 February
c.1941. An anaesthetist monitors a patient in the operating theatre aboard the 2/1st Australian hospital ship Manunda. The Manunda was bombed in Darwin harbour on 19 February 1942 during the first Jap
