The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Aitape, New Guinea. Despite the heat, Sister Elsie Banks of Castle Hill, SA, at an Australian General Hospital, is still enthusiastic enough to do a spot of gardening outside the mess.
Aitape, New Guinea. At an Australian General Hospital mail is always a popular feature with the girls. Nursing Sister Veronica Coghlan of Adelaide, SA, sorts through the mail box in the open-air mess.
Aitape, New Guinea. Nursing Sister Elsie Ireland of Murrurundi, NSW, and Lieutenant Joy Dickson, physiotherapist, of Auckland, NZ, at an Australian General Hospital, spend their leisure hours on the n
Aitape, New Guinea. Sister Veronica Hill of Maitland, NSW, wearing a surgical mask, dresses the head wound of Trooper H. Suttie at an Australian General Hospital.
Aitape, New Guinea. At an Australian General Hospital open-air mess, nursing Sister Lillian Hastie of Mullewa, WA, turns the handle of a Singer sewing machine for Sister Dulcie Young of Casterton, Vic
Aitape, New Guinea. Not exactly the beauty parlour they were used to in civilian life, but the nursing sisters are satisfied with the haircut the barber at an Australian General Hospital, Private Pat
NEW GUINEA. 1945. MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE, 2/11 AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, OUTSIDE THE MESS HUT. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SISTERS HARRIS; FORDMAN; BANKS.
