The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gaza, Egypt. December 1940. An informal group of nurses of the 2/5th Australian General Hospital. They are standing aoutside a tent and one of the nurses is holding a little dog. This hospital was a 1,200 bed unit and had arrived in the Middle East towards the end of 1940. (Donor J. Radford) (Original photograph housed in Archival store)
Capuzzo, Egypt. 1940-12. Informal group portrait of medical staff inside a tent operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station, 2/2nd Field Ambulance. (Original housed in AWM Archive Store)
Capuzzo, Egypt. 1940-12. Informal group portrait of staff outside the heavily camouflaged tent of the Main Dressing Station, 2/2nd Field Ambulance. They are dressed in warm clothing for protection aga
Informal portrait of NX271 Captain (Capt) Alice Mary 'Midge' Shepherd and NX282 Capt Maude Elaine Kiel, both 2/1 Australian General Hospital, standing in the doorway of a camouflaged building. The nur
Capuzzo, Egypt. 1940-12. Informal group portrait of staff outside a former Italian hospital hut now used as an ambulance station, at the Main Dressing Station, 2/2nd Field Ambulance. (Original housed
KANTARA, EGYPT. 1941? THREE NURSES AND A PATIENT OUTSIDE THE PLASTIC SURGERY UNIT OF 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL (AGH). (ORIGINAL HOUSED IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE)
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
