The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Outdoor group portrait of three Australian staff nurses, probably at No 1 Australian General Hospital (AGH) near Cairo, chatting over some sewing while enjoying a short break. The deck chair on the right (assigned as kit to nurses) is marked ‘Staff Nurse M. Keenan’. Staff Nurse Mary Keenan, 1st AGH from Merrygoen, NSW was a 30 year old nurse when she enlisted on 16 June 1915. She embarked for overseas with the Special Reinforcements from Sydney on 16 June 1915 aboard HMAT Karoola (A63). After arriving in Egypt, she worked at the 1st AGH Egypt until transferring to the 1st AGH England in August 1916. A month later, she was transferred to the 1st AGH Rouen, France where she served for the remainder of the war. She was promoted to Sister on 1 October 1918 and arrived back in Australia on 13 October 1919. The other two nurses are unidentified. The nurse on the far left wears a badge on her sleeve that dates from before the end of 1915.
Three nursing sisters attached to the staff of No 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital do some sewing during a short break off duty. Staff Nurse Mary Keenan is on the right.
Portrait of Staff Nurse Elsie Grace Dobson (left) and Staff Nurse Helen Eliza Milne (right), Australian Army Nursing Service, who were attached to one of the hospital trains running between Heliopolis
Patients stand chatting on Christmas Day at the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital near Cairo. The gum branches decorating the huts were taken from the trees that surrounded the hospital. The auxilia
Group portrait of six unidentified Indian orderlies and five Australian staff of a hospital train that ran between Ismailia, near the Suez Canal, and Heliopolis, near Cairo. The nurse is Staff Nurse
Three nurses of No 3 Australian General Hospital (3 AGH) and an unidentified soldier relax on the ground during a walk on an island, probably Lemnos. The nurses are identified, left to right, as: Staf
Group portrait of six unidentified Queensland sergeants from a medical unit aboard the hospital ship Salta en route from Egypt to France. These sergeants were probably employed in administrative role
