The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australia. 14 February 1969. Matron P. N. Mccarthy (second from right) who has served with the Australian Army for 27 years, including service in New Guinea, Japan, Korea and Malaya, chats with three nursing sisters who left for Vietnam and Malaysia at the weekend. Sister Coralie Hughes, 22, of Morphetville, SA (left) was on her way to join the Commonwealth Military Hospital at Terendak, Malacca. Sister Dianne Lawrence, 23, of Killara, NSW (second from left), and Sister Patricia Yorke, 22, of Camp Hill, Qld (right) were on their way to increase the nursing staff to eight at the 1st Australian Field Hospital, Vung Tau, South Vietnam.
Australia. 14 February 1969. Sister Dianne Lawrence, 23, of Killara, NSW (left), and Sister Patricia Yorke, 22, of Camp Hill, Qld, check out their tropical uniforms before departing for Vietnam to joi
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1969-07. Lieutenant Patricia Yorke of Camp Hill, Qld, and a nursing sister of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC), checks her records with a patient lying in bed a
Vung Tau, South Vietnam. 1969. In the classroom, Sister Patricia Yorke of Camp Hill, Qld, checking a lesson with one of her Vietnamese pupils, is one of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC)
When your father has only recently been killed in Vietnam, Anzac Day holds much more significance than to other eight or nine year olds. That is why Robert Gilbert, 9, (second from right) proudly wore
After being invested with the Military Medal (MM) at Government House, Sydney, Sergeant Les Stephens of Coogee, NSW, receives a congratulatory kiss from his sister, Mrs P. Tait of Coogee, NSW (left),
The latest addition to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) is Judith Patricia, daughter of Captain and Mrs A W Rofe of Cremorne, NSW, who was born at the BCOF General Hospital on 31 Augus
