The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two hospitals, an infirmary and a dispensary in Vietnam received a total of $100,000 worth of medical supplies from the Australian Force Vietnam (AFV) following the closing down of the 1st Australian Field Hospital (1AFH) at Vung Tau. At the War Veterans' Paraplegic Infirmary at Vung Tau, $10,000 worth of supplies were donated by the Commanding Officer of 1AFH, Colonel D. C. Cook of Castlecrag, NSW (left), to the Commanding Officer of the Infirmary, Major Tran Tan Phat. Most of the supplies which were donated were subjected to expiry dates or changes in temperature and would have been unserviceable if returned to Australia. The bulk of them went to the Bein Hoa Hospital, where the Australian civilian surgical team is based.
Chatting with paraplegics at their War Veterans' Infirmary at Vung Tau, is the Commanding Officer of the 1st Australian Field Hospital (1AFH), Colonel (Col) D. C. Cook of Castlecrag, NSW (centre). Col
Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Brigadier B. A. McDonald (left), presents Colonel Tao, the chief instructor at the Vietnamese Army's Signal School at Vung Tau, with $10,000 worth of
Private Mike Rigby of Tuart Hill, WA, unloads one of several cases of medical supplies the Australian Army donated to the Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon. A total of $100,000 worth of supplies were present
South Vietnam. November 1971. Leader of the Australian civilian surgical team at the Bein Hoa Hospital, Dr Reginald Lord of Greenwich, NSW (centre), signs for medical supplies donated to the Hospital
Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Brigadier B. A McDonald (left), meets officers of the Vietnamese Army Signals School prior to presenting $10,000 worth of medical supplies to the Sch
Two hospitals, an infirmary and a dispensary, in South Vietnam, recently received gifts of medical supplies worth a total of one-hundred-thousand dollars from the Australian Force, Vietnam. The gifts
