The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Wearing a white surgical gown, Colonel Edward Victor Hugo, Senior Medical Officer of Hospital Ship Gascon, which was moored off Anzac Cove, watches as a wounded soldier from Anzac, is carried on a stretcher.
Stretcher bearers carry a wounded soldier to waiting barges loaded with other wounded men. Limited medical care could be given on the Gallipoli Peninsula and medical cases were evacuated for further t
A flat bottomed barge transporting wounded soldiers from Anzac Cove alongside the Hospital Ship Gascon.
Gallipoli, Turkey. April 1915. Injured soldiers confined to stretchers being lowered into the wards of the hospital ship Gascon which was standing off Anzac Cove.
Hospital ship Gascon at anchor. This was one of the ships which carried wounded personnel from Gallipoli to Alexandria.
The Hospital Ship Gascon at sea. This was one of the ships which carried wounded personnel from Gallipoli to Alexandria.
Lying in a specially made wooden cradle, a wounded soldier is hoisted on board a hospital ship, probably off Anzac Cove or at Mudros on the Aegean island of Lemnos.
