The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New Guinea. Patients at the 2/7th Australian General Hospital at Lae are assisted back to health by the good services of the Red Cross Society which conduct picnics for the patients. These outings are held about three times a week, an eight mile launch trip lands the party at a point where the surf is regarded almost as good as Bondi Beach. Usually the party numbers about twenty including a Red Cross representative and two or three sisters. Corporal Laurie Buckman is carrying supplies in a box from the launch to the picnic ground.
A party of nursing sisters, an Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit medical officer and a Red Cross representative leave Wewak by two launches for Koil Island some 40 miles offshore. On arrival a
LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE K. LAURIE (2), RECEIVING SMOKES FROM THE RED CROSS SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVE. THE MEN, PATIENTS OF 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL ARE WAITING FOR TRANSPORT TO THE HOSPITAL SHIP
TOBOI WHARF, NEW BRITAIN. 1945-09-16. A PARTY OF MISSIONARY SISTERS AND PRIESTS FROM THE RAMALE MISSION BEING ASSISTED ONTO THE WHARF FROM THE MOTOR LAUNCH GLORIA, OPERATED BY 16 SMALL SHIPS COMPANY.
KOIL ISLAND, NEW GUINEA, 1945-10-31. A VISIT TO KOIL ISLAND WAS ARRANGED BY THE RED CROSS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEDICAL INSPECTION OF THE NATIVE INHABITANTS. THE VISITING PARTY CONSISTED OF AN AUSTRALIAN
KOIL ISLAND, NEW GUINEA, 1945-10-31. A VISIT TO KOIL ISLAND WAS ARRANGED BY THE RED CROSS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEDICAL INSPECTION OF THE NATIVE INHABITANTS. THE VISITING PARTY CONSISTED OF AN AUSTRALIAN
NEW GUINEA. RED CROSS WORK AT A PICNIC HELD FOR CONVALESCENTS AT AN AUSTRALIAN FIELD HOSPITAL. SISTERS AND CONVALESCENTS SET OFF IN A RUBBER BOAT.
