The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bombay, India. c 1917. Two members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and two patients in Victoria War Hospital (situated in a new railway office building close to the docks) in Bombay, buying and selling lace. A contingent of one hundred nurses were requested to work in British War Hospital in Bombay. S/Nurse Philp, who trained at Caulfield Hospital, travelled to Bombay on the Canberra. She worked at the Victoria War Hospital, a hospital with two hundred beds on each of the first three floors and Sister's quarters on the fourth. This hospital received the most serious cases as it was five minutes from the dock. Patients were received from Mesopotamia, and they included British Prisoners of War (POWs) released by the Turks, Turkish prisoners and British troops. At one stage British troops suffering from heatstroke were received at one thousand a week. (Donor E. Pearce)
Bombay, India. c 1917. Informal portrait of Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp, a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), standing on a ward balcony of Victoria War Hospital (situate
Bombay, India. c 1917. Informal portrait of Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp, a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), standing on the roof of Victoria War Hospital (situated in a
Bombay, India. c 1917. Informal portrait of Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp, a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), standing on the roof of Victoria War Hospital (situated in a
Bombay, India. c 1917. Three members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) sitting at a table in a ward at Victoria War Hospital (situated in a new railway office building close to the docks).
India. c 1918. Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp (right) and three companions standing in front of their car at the Khyber Pass. S/Nurse Philp was one of a contingent of one hundred nurses reques
Bombay, India. 1916-12-25. Patients and staff in one of the wards of the Victoria War Hospital decorated with Christmas decorations. The hospital was staffed by members of the Australian Army Nursing
