The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sister Dorothy Angell (back, right) and Sister Pamela Matenson (front, right), both members of the Australian Civilian Surgical/Medical Team, transporting a patient from the surgical suite to the ward with the help of two Vietnamese staff who were trained to assist them in the recovery ward. The patients were looked after by the Australian nurses in the recovery ward until they were considered well enough to be transferred to the wards. The recovery ward had only five beds and it was not uncommon for there to be several patients in one bed and a number of stretchers on the floor. Note the small group of Vietnamese onlookers watching as the patient is carried on a stretcher through the open air compound.
Sister Maureen Spicer, a member of the Australian Civilian Surgical/Medical Team, checking the intravenous drip of a wounded Vietnamese lying on a stretcher on the floor of the recovery ward after sur
A Vietnamese mother sits next to her young child, who is one of three patients lying in cramped bunk beds in the recovery room of a Vietnamese hospital. There were usually six beds in the recovery war
Interior of the Acute Surgical Ward at the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Left to right (around the walls): Sergeant Harlow; unidentified patient; unidentified patient; Private Oliffe; unidentified
Interior of a ward in the 3rd Australian General Hospital. Left to right (around the wall): four patients unidentified; Sister B. Belstead; unidentified patient; Private Leishman; unidentified patient
View along line of beds in canvas type hospital ward at the 2/6th Australian General Hospital. Nursing Sister attending to patient. View along row of beds in ward. Nursing Sister taking a patient's
The new section of the hospital used by civilian medical teams at Vung Tau. On the right is the surgical suite and left is Ward 2. More than 450 civilian medical and surgical staff volunteered to work
