The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Melbourne, Vic. c. 1967. A hand coloured studio portrait of Ethel Frances Hanrahan OBE, Senior Matron of the Repatriation General Hospital at Heidelberg. Note she is wearing her war service medals and her OBE. As a young nursing sister she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) on 15 December 1939 and in May 1940 sailed with the 2/3rd Field Ambulance for service in England, where she was attached with the 2/3rd Australian General Hospital (AGH). In November 1940 she proceeded to the Middle East for duty with the 2/2nd AGH at Kantara, Egypt. In March 1942 she returned to Australia and over the next four years was appointed as matron at AGH Toowoomba, 116 AGH Charters Towers and Cairns (1944), 107 AGH Darwin and Principal Matron of the Northern Territory Force (1945) and finally in October 1945 to 112 Brisbane Military Hospital and Principal Matron, Headquarters, Northern Command. Early in 1947 Matron Hanrahan ceased service with AANS and took up an appointment as Senior Matron at Heidelberg. In 1963 she was awarded an Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to nursing with AANS and the Repatriation Department. (Donor J. Radford) (Original photograph housed in Archival Store)
Darwin, NT. 1945-09. Colonel A. M. Sage (left), Matron-in-Charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), returns from a tour of inspection of Singapore, Java, Labuan, Morotai and Manila. She is
Palestine, Middle East. c. 1940. Portrait of NFX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle, 2/1st Australian General Hospital (AGH) standing in front of a tented ward at the hospital at Gaza Ridge. Sister Dow
Grey wool dickie front with black twill weave collar. Top of the neck is edged with cream silk binding and neck lined with grey twill weave either silk or cotton. The main front is lined with grey sil
Portrait of NX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle, a member of the nursing staff of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital. Sister Dowdle of Bondi, NSW, (originally of Narromine, NSW) trained at Auburn
Australian Army Nursing Service 1916 pattern coarse grey wool felt Nurses hat with brown silk pleated band. The hat has a black satin sweatband on the inside. Worn with outdoor uniform by Matron Grace
Related to the Second World War service of VFX384 (F331) Major Ethel Jessie Bowe. (1) Original hand-written diary 1940-1944. The entries begin with farewell parties and Bowe's embarkation on Queen Ma