The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tank, India. c. 1917. Informal group portrait of the original medical staff of the hospital at Tank, North West (Baluchistan) frontier of India. The group consisted of Sister E. G. Browne who was in charge, Sister Vera Steel, Staff Nurse McAllister and two British medical officers. The sisters were members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS). They had to work in extremely harsh conditions in a hospital built of mud, with low walls and openings for windows, and only the crudest kind of equipment. They had a picket of twelve Gurkhas always around their bungalow.
Tank, India. c. 1916. Informal group portrait of the original medical staff of the hospital at Tank, North West (Baluchistan) frontier of India. The group consisted of Sister E. G. Browne who was in c
Tank, India. c. 1918. Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Sisters Browne, Steel, McAllister, Furness and Jack who were members of the hospital on the North West Frontier. See H12555 for information
Group portrait showing nurses and patients outside Alexandra War Hospital, while in quarantine after arrival in India. Australian nurses of No. 22 Stationary Hospital in India, back row, left to right
Heidelberg, Vic, 1944. Group portrait of nursing trainees for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) with their teachers at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Left to right: back row: Dot Chaffey;
View of a corner of the Officers' Mess at the 1st Australian General Hospital. The tables were being specially prepared for Guest Night (Friday nights). The accommodation was good, but too small for r
Tank, India. c. 1917. Exterior view of one of the wards at the hospital on the North West Frontier.
