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Photograph 020091 Second World War, 1939-1945A view of an ambulance train arriving at the wharf in Port Tewfik, Suez. The men were conveyed by ferry to the hospital ship “Oranje” waiting in the harbour.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
These patients in their pyjamas were able to walk from the hospital train to the ferry which carried them out to the waiting Hospital Ship “Oranje” at Port Tewfik, Suez.
A view of an ambulance train arriving at the wharf in Port Tewfik, Suez. The men were conveyed by ferry to the hospital ship “Oranje” waiting in the harbour.

Patients going on board the hospital ship “Oranje” from a ferry in Port Tewfik, Suez.

New Zealand wounded boarding a ferry that took them to the hospital ship “Oranje” in Port Tewfik, Suez.

VX29376 Private George Alfred Quantock, on crutches, leaving an ambulance train to board a ferry for transport to the hospital ship “Oranje” in Port Tewfik, Suez.

Patients boarding the Hospital Ship “Oranje” in Port Tewfik, Suez.

Australian and New Zealand patients wait to board the hospital ship Oranje at Port Tewfik. The Oranje was a modern 20,000 ton vessel owned by the Netherlands government. In 1941 the ship was offered
