The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
NEW GUINEA. MRS VERA MORTON WITH SGT. STOKES OF AUBURN, VIC., WORKING A HAND LOOM ON WHICH HE IS MAKING A SCARF. MRS MORTON WAS THE LAST WOMAN TO BE EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, AND IS NOW BACK AS A RED CROSS WORKER. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT).
NEW GUINEA. MRS VERA MORTON, THE LAST WOMAN TO BE EVACUATED FROM NEW GUINEA, IS NOW BACK AGAIN AS A RED CROSS WORKER. HERE SHE IS WITH SOME OF THE LADS SHE HAS TAUGHT THE ART OF MAKING USEFUL HANDICRA
Informal portrait of Superintendent Vera Harriet Morton, Red Cross, outside a hospital tent at the 2/9 Australian General Hospital. Superintendent Morton was appointed Matron of the Red Cross Rouna Co
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1944-11-14. MISS M. WHITE, A VISITING FIELD FORCE MEMBER OF THE RED CROSS SOCIETY ASSISTS A PATIENT TO THREAD A LOOM FOR SCARF MAKING.
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. PRIVATE WHITE, AN INMATE OF STONNINGTON CONVALESCENT HOME IS SEEN OPERATING A HAND LOOM IN MAKING A SILK SCARF, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FORMS OF HANDICRAFTS INDULGED IN AT
NEW GUINEA. FIVE HUNDRED MEALS AT A TIME AT A HOSPITAL PICNIC, OR UNLOADING BOATS OF WOUNDED ALLIED TROOPS, HAVE BEEN CATERED FOR BY THIS RED CROSS MOBILE CANTEEN. WITH THE SOLDIERS WHO ARE RECEIVING
NEW GUINEA. WAU-MUBO AREA. PATIENTS AT A FORWARD DRESSING STATION RECEIVE RED CROSS COMFORTS. (NEGATIVE BY G. SHORT).
