The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This group of nurses are the party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms. Identified left to right, back row: Miss Moore, a masseuse; Mrs McKillop; Miss Harris; Miss Jamieson; Miss Hungerford; Miss Robinson. Third row: Miss Hutchinson; Miss Sheridan; Mrs Cook (partially obscured); Miss Wallace; Miss Lynette Crozier; Miss Minnie Hough; Miss Hilda Loxton. Second row: Miss Hughes; Miss S Fraser Thompson (later Mrs Hill); Miss Gray; Miss Dorothy Ellena Duffy; Miss Moreton. Front row: Sister Nellie Weston Crommelin; Mlle Niau (who accompanied the nurses to teach them French); Sister Norman. Sister Crommelin had previously served as a Red Cross nurse in England and France but had returned to Australia in late 1915.
Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to work in French hospitals. This group of nurses a
1915 'Adrian' Pattern French Army steel helmet, with the bugle horn badge embossed 'RF' (Republic Francaise) worn by certain regiments of the French Light Infantry on the Western Front. The helmet has
Single breasted navy blue wool serge jacket fastened down the front by five large black plastic buttons, one of which is missing. The shoulder straps are plain navy blue fastened by a small brown pla
At sea between Australia and France. July 1916. Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No. 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to
Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to work in French hospitals. This group of nurses a
At sea between Australia and France. July 1916. Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No. 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to
Forges-les-Eaux, France, c. 1918-04. Sister Hilda Loxton, a Bluebird, saying adieu to a wounded soldier being evacuated from a mobile hospital south-west of Amiens. The hospital was established by Mrs
Forges-les-Eaux, France. A medical orderly, Major Davidson and Sister Lynette Crozier, a Bluebird, applying a dressing to the leg of a wounded French soldier, at a mobile hospital south-west of Amiens
Staff outside one of the buildings of a mobile hospital established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines on the Western Front. In 1917-18 she employed, through the
Sister (Sr) Hilda Loxton (left) and Sr Minnie Hough, wearing sou'westers (rainproof hats), are preparing to receive wounded patients at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. The hospital was established by M
