The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Myola 2, Papua, 1942-10. Two members of the surgical team from the 2/4th Field Ambulance, VX39117 Captain Douglas Robert Leslie (left), a surgeon, and Private W. McBean, a nursing orderly, apply plaster to a soldier's broken leg. The two men are carrying out the procedure in the tent that serves as the operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station (MDS). The operating table is a makeshift piece of bush handicraft, while the frame used to support the leg during the operation is a rough timber apparatus made from tree stems and branches. A tin resting on a box with a covering over it (centre, right) probably contains cotton wool.
Myola 2, Papua, 1942-10. Members of the surgical team from the 2/4th Field Ambulance set and bandage a soldier's broken leg preparatory to wrapping it in plaster. The team members are (left to right):
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. At the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, members of the surgical team apply plaster to a soldier's broken left leg. The men are (left to right): Major
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
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. At the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholas Chenhall (right), Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2/6th Field Ambulance,
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. At the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance, members of the surgical team work on setting and applying plaster to a soldier's broken left leg. To support t
Probably Soputa 2, Papua, 1942-11. Three members of the 2/4th Field Ambulance stand outside the tent that serves as the operating theatre at the unit's Main Dressing Station (MDS). Left to right: Pri
