070491 Accession Number: 070491

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Staff in the garden of the Officers’Ward of the 2/1st General Hospital situated at Eggy’s Corner, Port Moresby. Practically every ward at the hospital has a garden that patients cultivate. Identified personnel, from left to right, are: VFX64615 Corporal Doris Anderson, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service; NFX281 Sister Sarah Jane Thumpston, the Sister-in-Charge of the ward; NX146059 Private Laurel Ellen Newson, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service; NX70518 Sister Margaret May Olliffe; VX65915 Sister Mary Leila Lloyd.

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Accession Number
070491
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 3x4"
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
16 February 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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