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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 requested to work in British War Hospitals 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 nurses quarters on the fourth. This hospital received the most serious cases as it was five minutes from the docks. 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 the rate of one thousand a day. (Donor E. Pearce)
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P02523.007
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Colour: Black & white
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