The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
At sea between Australia and France. July 1916. Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No. 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to work in French hospitals. This group of nurses are the party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the "blue birds". Identified are, back row, left to right: Miss Hamilton Moore, a masseuse [registered member of the Australian Massage Association]; Mrs Jessie Donaldson McKillop; Miss Fanny M Harris; Miss Annie Jamieson; Miss Ruby Hungerford; Miss Alice E Robinson. Third row: Miss Jessie T Hutchinson (partially obscured); Miss Grace Sheridan; Mrs Elsie Cook; Miss Helen S Wallace; Miss Lynette E Crozier (partially obscured); Miss Winifred Hough; Miss Hilda Loxton. Second row: Miss Susan Hughes; Miss Lillian Fraser Thompson (later Mrs Hill); Miss Alice F Gray; Miss Dorothy E Duffy; Miss Ida J Moreton. Front row (sitting on ground): Sister Nellie Weston Crommelin; Mademoiselle Niau (who accompanied the nurses on the voyage to teach them French); Sister Olive H Norman. Sister Crommelin had previously served as a Red Cross nurse in England and France but had returned to Australia in late 1915.
This group of nurses are the party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms. Identified left to right, back r
This group of nurses are the party of twenty Australian Red Cross nurses, sponsored by the NSW Jockey Club, and know as the 'Bluebirds' because of their blue uniforms. Identified left to right, back r
Group portrait of Australian Red Cross Nurses, wearing their nursing uniforms on board No 2 Australian Hospital Ship Kanowna, on their way to France to work in French hospitals. This group of nurses a
Staff outside one of the buildings of a mobile hospital established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines on the Western Front. In 1917-18 she employed, through the
Sister Minnie Hough posing in a gas mask at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. The hospital was established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines on the Western Front.
Sister (Sr) Hilda Loxton (left) and Sr Minnie Hough, wearing sou'westers (rainproof hats), are preparing to receive wounded patients at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. The hospital was established by M
Canadian nurse Sister Jaffray with some of her walking patients at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. The hospital was established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines
