The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
View of the operating theatre of the 1st Australian General Hospital. The operating theatre had accommodation for eight operating tables and was thus capable of dealing with any rush of cases. Also attached was a surgeons washroom (roomy), sterilizing room, sisters room, orderlies room and an instrument sharpening room. The waiting room was suitably warmed and also served as the x-ray theatre. Adjacent to this hut was the acute surgical ward and other surgical wards. On the other side of the hut a pre-operation or resuscitation ward was under construction. Identified, left to right: Private (Pte) Smith; Lance Corporal Bondietti; Pte Harris; Pte Binskin and Corporal Solomon.
BOUGAINVILLE, 1945-06-18. CPL E.A. GRACE (1) AND SISTER I.B. SCHULTZ (2), CLEANING INSTRUMENTS IN THE OPERATING THEATRE STERILISING ROOM AT 109 CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. (A GENERAL VIEW OF THE SURGIC
"The Assessment and resuscitation Room at 1AustFdHosp. Six fully equipped trolleys lie ready to receive patients. The operating theatre is through the doors at the end."
View of the interior of an acute surgical ward at the 1st Australian General Hospital. The ward was a wooden hut of engineer construction in 1914 when the premises were those of a Stationary Hospital
AT SEA, 1945-05-15. A MEMBER OF THE OPERATING THEATRE TEAM STERILIZING AND SETTING UP INSTRUMENTS IN PREPARATION FOR AN OPERATION IN THE OPERATING THEATRE OF HMAS KANIMBLA.
Myola 1, Papua, c. 1942-10-17. A tent fly has been used in the improvisation of a makeshift operating theatre at the Main Dressing Station (MDS) of the 2/4th Field Ambulance. The theatre contains as o
The main operating theatre at 1st Australian Field Hospital (1 Aust Fd Hosp), showing mobile operating lights and anaesthetic setup. It contains two operating tables, allowing surgeons to move easily
