The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kilo 89 Camp, Gaza Ridge, Palestine. c. December 1941. The four Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) occupants of Tent No. 9 stand in front of their quarters. Left to right: Alwyn Crawford, Gladys Batty, Beryl Foll and NX76505 Alice Burns, kneeling, holding 'Mustapha' the camel. (Donor A. Penman)
c. October 1941. Studio portrait of NX76505 Alice Burns, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). Miss Burns served in the Middle East and then in Queensland after the VADs became the Australian Army Medical W
Kilo 89 camp, Gaza, Palestine. 1942. Amber Bushell, VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), wearing wet weather gear, swings a mallet to hammer a tent peg more firmly into the muddy ground. The ground around
Kilo 89 Camp, Gaza, Palestine. 1942. Informal portrait of Pamela Bushell in wet weather gear holding two storm lanterns in either hand. Miss Bushell served in the Middle East as a VAD (Voluntary Aid D
Kilo 89 camp, Gaza, Palestine. 1942. Meg Patterson, a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) serving in the Middle East, relaxes on a camp bed inside her tent. A mosquito net hangs from the roof
Group portrait of members of the first VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) contingent to travel overseas. The women are assembled on the boat deck of the Queen Mary, the troopship which carried them over t
Five members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) attached to the 2/1st Australian General Hospital enjoy afternoon tea sitting on stretchers outside their tents at Kilo 89 Camp.
