The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Palestine c. 1941. Left to Right: Sisters Lawson, Mounsey, Shaw and Rodgers standing on a footpath outside the Sisters' Mess at the 2/1st Australian General Hospital. The four nurses had travelled to the Middle East in company with the 2/26th Brigade aboard the steamship Strathmore. The transport vessel sailed from Australia on 1941-11 as part of Convoy US7. (Donor A. Tovell)
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE. 1940. NURSING STAFF FROM 2/5TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE OF OMAR. LEFT TO RIGHT: STAFF NURSES PATRICK AND STEPHENSON, SISTERS COOK AND HAMMER, STAFF NURSE DO
GAZA, PALESTINE. 1941-09. NURSES FROM THE 2/5TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AWAIT TRANSPORT AT THE GAZA RAILWAY STATION EN ROUTE TO ASMARA, ABYSSINIA, TO SET UP A HOSPITAL. (DONOR B. SHAW)
GAZA RIDGE, PALESTINE. 1941. MEMBERS OF THE NURSING AND PHYSIOTHERAPY STAFF OF THE 2/9TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL (AGH) IN THE NO. 1 NURSES' STAGING MESS, WHICH WAS IN THE GROUNDS OF THE 2/1ST AGH.
REHOVOT, PALESTINE. 1941-04. NURSES FROM THE 2/5TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL WAIT TO LEAVE REHOVOT RAILWAY STATION BEFORE EMBARKING FOR GREECE. (DONOR B. SHAW)
Abu Ghosh, Palestine. 1941-12-8. Group portrait of AIF senior officers, French and Polish clergy and the majority of the Roman Catholic chaplains posted to AIF units in the Middle East, in the courtya
GAZA RIDGE, PALESTINE. 1941. THREE MEMBERS OF THE NURSING STAFF OF THE 2/9TH AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL (AGH) OUTSIDE THE NO. 1 NURSES' STAGING MESS IN THE GROUNDS OF THE 2/1ST AGH. LEFT TO RIGHT: SI
