The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. At dawn, members of the surgical team attached to the 2/4th Field Ambulance work inside the tent that serves as the operating theatre at the unit's Main Dressing Station (MDS). A tub of water stands on a small table at the entrance to the tent (centre, left), while surgical gowns, towels and facemasks hang out to dry on a clothes line (right).
Myola 1, Papua, c. 1942-10-17. A tent fly has been used in the improvisation of a makeshift operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. The theatre contains as o
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. Tents of the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance set up on the open plain at Myola, with jungle-covered hills in the background. Standing (left) is the te
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. NX34655 Captain Alan Oliver Watson, a Dental Officer serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, administers a general anaesthetic to a patient during an operation in the tent tha
Myola 2, Papua, 1942-10. Following yet another all-night session in the operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station (MDS), NX34655 Captain Alan Oliver Watson, Dental Officer and acting anaesthetist
Myola 2, Papua, 1942-10. At the camp and Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/6th Field Ambulance, the unit's tents are set up on a plain with jungle-covered hills in the background. Some sheets, clot
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. At the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, VX39117 Captain Douglas Robert Leslie (right), a surgeon attached to the unit's surgical team, applies plaster
