The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. NX34655 Captain (Capt) Alan Oliver Watson, a Dental Officer serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, gives some dental treatment to a bare-chested patient in the open air at the unit's Main Dressing Station (MDS). Capt Watson is using a syringe to give his patient an injection of local anaesthetic. Note that Capt Watson is wearing epaulettes displaying his badges of rank, a practice that had ceased while the Field Ambulance was making its way over the Owen Stanley Range, but one which Major General A.G. Vasey, commander of the 7th Division, had subsequently ordered to be resumed.
Kokoda, Papua, 1942-11. NX34655 Captain (Capt) Alan Oliver Watson, a Dental Officer serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, gives some dental treatment to a bare-chested patient in the open air at the
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
Probably Efogi North, Papua, 1942-10. Members of the surgical team of the 2/4th Field Ambulance perform an operation in the tent that serves as the operating theatre at the unit's Main Dressing Stati
Myola 1, Papua, 1942-10. Lying open on the ground is the emergency dental kit that NX34655 Captain Alan Oliver Watson, Dental Officer with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, has brought with him along the Kok
Donadabu, Sogeri Valley, Papua, 1943-01. Informal outdoors portrait of NX34655 Captain (Capt) Alan Oliver Watson (left), a Dental Officer serving with the 2/4th Field Ambulance, and NX76598 Capt Esmon
Myola 1 or 2, Papua, 1942-10. Major Henry Oswald Gerald ('Hal') Selle (left), a Medical Officer (MO) serving with the 2/6th Field Ambulance, assists the surgeon VX39117 Captain Douglas Robert Leslie (
