P00562.176 Accession Number: P00562.176

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Tank, India. c. 1916. Informal group portrait of the original medical staff of the hospital at Tank, North West (Baluchistan) frontier of India. The group consisted of Sister E. G. Browne who was in charge, Sister Vera Steel, Staff Nurse McAllister and two British medical officers. The sisters were members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). They had to work in extremely harsh conditions in a hospital built of mud, with low walls and openings for windows, and only the crudest kind of equipment. They had a picket of twelve Gurkhas always around their bungalow. (Better photograph copy at H12555)

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Accession Number
P00562.176
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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