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Photograph A02114 First World War, 1914-1918The hospital barge HB2, locally known as the Beetle, carrying sick and wounded in the Anzac area.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Hospital barge carrying sick and wounded from shore to ship at Gallipoli.
Walking wounded and sick Australian soldiers moving onto a pier on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The men are waiting to embark on a barge plying between the shore and the hospital ship, anchored at sea off

The hospital barge HB2, locally known as the Beetle, carrying sick and wounded in the Anzac area.

The hospital barge HB2, locally known as the Beetle, carrying sick and wounded in the Anzac area.

Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. A hospital barge, moored at an ANZAC Cove pier, used for moving sick and wounded AIF soldiers out to hospital ships offshore. (Donor Mrs R. Smith)

The hospital ship Grantully Castle docked at Alexandria, the hospital train is waiting to receive sick and wounded soldiers from Gallipoli, who were usually sent to Cairo.

Three sailors and three army personnel prepare to hoist a wounded man from a barge to a hospital ship off Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula.
