Collection of Ethel Butler Accession Number: A01181

Description

Group portrait of thirty eight Australian Nurses outside the Alexandra War Hospital, quarantined in one of the wards for cholera, measles and mumps, the latter contracted on the journey from Colombo to Bombay. Shown, back row (standing against wall), left to right: Gillies, Vic (1); McIlwraith, Qld (2); Saunders, Vic (3); Ramsay, Qld (4); E. McPhail (5); unidentified (6); unidentified (7); McGoch, Vic (8); unidentified (9); unidentified (10); unidentified (11); unidentified (12); Overell, Qld (13); Halpin, Qld (14); Bailey, Qld (15); unidentified (16); McGeoch, Vic (17); Harris, Qld (18); Phillips, Vic (19); Harrod, Qld (20); Russell, Qld (21); Fisher, Qld (22); Munroe, Vic (23); Duncan, Vic (24); Young, SA (25); Farrow, SA (26); Warner, Qld (27); Ekers, SA (28); Wiltshire, Qld (29); Lancton, Vic (30); Somerville, Qld (31); Frost, Qld (32); unidentified (33); unidentified (34); unidentified (35); Durack, Qld (36); Hockings, Qld (37); Hazard, Qld (38); English orderly, Royal Army Medical Corps (39); English orderly, Royal Army Medical Corps (40).
See A01181K for position of those named in this caption.

Details

Accession Number
A01181
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass transparency (positive)
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Matron Ethel Butler.
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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