The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS), showing the interior of the Mess section in the "Dug Out". Based about a half mile from the hospital this "Dug Out" comprised three tunnels built by the British as a regimental aid post but never used. All had concrete walls and converged in an area 25 feet below ground level. The area contained a 500 gallon water tank, a kitchen with store, an operating theatre and three wards which took stretchers slung on the walls. Air was supplied by vents. Seated at the table are, left to right, VFX263 Sister Dorothy Vines, Captain Faerlie, VX266 Sister Anna Elizabeth Whiteside, VFX374 Sister M.E. Josephs, and VFX360 U.A. Melville.
2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS), showing the interior of the Mess and at the back the sleeping quarters in the "Dug Out". Based about a half mile from the hospital this "Dug Out" comprised
Standing in front of the Nurses' Mess of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) are from left to right: Sister E. Sulzberger, VFX263 Sister Dorothy Vines, VX266 Sister Anna Elizabeth Whitesid
Port Melbourne, VIC. 1940-04-14. Informal group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Personnel of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) standing in front of a life boat aboard
Qastina, Palestine. 1940-07-18. Informal group portrait of the officers and nursing sisters of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) inside the Sisters' Mess. Identified nursing sisters from
Joining with other units of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital (2/1st AGH) the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) set up their first camp hospital. Left to right: Australian Army Nursing S
Dinner party at the officers' mess of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) in the convent Terra Santa (or Sancta) which they occupied for the Syrian Campaign. Clockwise from the foreground
