The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian and other troops outside the Convent of the Sisters of Sion on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. It was the practice of soldiers of the First and Second World Wars to visit the convent while on leave and leave ex-votos [a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity] while seeking divine protection.
JERUSALEM - AUST. AND N.Z. TROOPS ENTER CHURCH OF THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF SION IN THE VIA DOLOROSA. THE ECCO HOMO ARCH WAS PROBABLY OF ROMAN STRUCTURE & IT IS ASSUMED THAT IT WAS BUILT BY HADRIA
JERUSALEM - AUST. AND N.Z. TROOPS ENTER CHURCH OF THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF SION IN THE VIA DOLOROSA. THE ECCO HOMO ARCH WAS PROBABLY OF ROMAN STRUCTURE & IT IS ASSUMED THAT IT WAS BUILT BY HADRIA
JERUSALEM - MEN OF THE A.I.F. AND THE N.Z. FORCES ON LEAVE FOLLOW IN THE STEPS OF THEIR FATHERS' DURING A PILGRIMAGE THRO' THE VIA DOLOROSA, AND PASS THROUGH THE ECCO HOMO ARCH. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY
JERUSALEM. ON THE STEPS OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE NEXT TO THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. THESE CHILDREN ARE CHRISTIAN ARABS WHO ARE LIVING AT THE CONVENT SCHOOL RUN BY THE SISTERS OF THIS
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE, 1941-02. 2/3RD CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. GROUP OF SISTERS ON LEAVE IN JERUSALEM IN THE GROUNDS OF ST GEORGES HOSTEL. LEFT TO RIGHT, SISTERS N. G. LUKE, R. FALLICK, R. BLACKLOCK,
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE. 1941-02. 2/3RD CASUALTY CLEARING STATION. GROUP OF SISTERS ON LEAVE IN JERUSALEM IN THE GROUNDS OF ST GEORGES HOSTEL. LEFT TO RIGHT, SISTERS N. G. LUKE, R. FALLICK, R. BLACKLOCK,
1941-03-08, JERUSALEM, PALESTINE. THREE AUSTRALIAN SERVICEMEN OUTSIDE THE DOORS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER'S CLUB, THE JERUSALEM HEADQUARTERS FOR THE AIF ON LEAVE
