The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Portrait of the nursing staff of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital. Identified is NX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle, back row, second from left . Sister Dowdle of Bondi, NSW, (originally of Narromine, NSW) trained at Auburn Hospital and was a senior sister at time of enlistment. She was among the first contingent of nurses to go to the Middle East on 2 January 1940 with the 2/1st AGH and during her Army career she was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. She later continued her nursing career in Sydney, retiring as the Matron of Bankstown Hospital.
Portrait of NX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle, a member of the nursing staff of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital. Sister Dowdle of Bondi, NSW, (originally of Narromine, NSW) trained at Auburn
Palestine, Middle East. c. 1940. Portrait of NFX270 Sister Freda Mary Eliza Dowdle, 2/1st Australian General Hospital (AGH) standing in front of a tented ward at the hospital at Gaza Ridge. Sister Dow
Group portrait of nurses of the 2/1st Australian General Hospital, en route to Gaza Ridge, around the piano onboard the troop transport Empress of Japan. Identified from left to right: NX276 Staff Nur
Melbourne, Vic. c. 1967. A hand coloured studio portrait of Ethel Frances Hanrahan OBE, Senior Matron of the Repatriation General Hospital at Heidelberg. Note she is wearing her war service medals and
Studio portrait of Matron Ida O'Dwyer (1880-1960), Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), wearing her service medals. After enlisting on 21 November 1914 she served in Egypt, England (where she was i
Studio portrait of Matron Jean Miles-Walker RRC, AANS. Sister Miles-Walker of Hobart, Tasmania, embarked on the troopship Euripides on 20 October 1914 with the 2nd Australian General Hospital (2 AGH).
