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  1. [blank page]; [Study of the dispensary]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Verso:This is a study for the field dispensary at the 111 Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen. This image features the front of the dispensary tent with guy ropes suspending the top of the tent to ...

    ART29202.014

  2. [blank page]; X Ray

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    This image features a man lying on a stretcher being positioned for X Ray of his right leg.

    ART29202.015

  3. Blood transfusion

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Two doctors wearing surgical gowns and masks and a female nurse attend the right arm of a native Papuan who lies on a hospital bed at the No 3 Casualty Clearing Station, Finshafen and undergoes a bloo...

    ART29202.005

  4. Blood Transfusion on a dangerously ill Native; [Hospital Jeep]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    This is a study of a man who watches a medical assistant as he inserts a needle into his right arm for the blood transfusion. The other medical assistant holds the patients arm still at the shoulder w...

    ART29202.019

  5. Bringing patients to the operating theatre

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Bringing patients to the operating theatre, 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22400

  6. Building a picture theatre

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22403

  7. Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen; [studies of soldiers building]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    In the foreground there are three men seated, one is crouched on his haunches as they take a tea break amongst the activity of cutting of logs from surrounding trees used in the construction of the th...

    ART29202.002

  8. Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22404

  9. [Church]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    This pencil study is a detailed drawing of a wooden church in Finschafen with three people seated inside amongst the pews.

    ART29202.020

  10. Field dispensary

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    The Dispensary, 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22405

  11. [Fore shortened study of patient lying on a bed]; [two studies of patient lying on bed]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Recto: The artist captures in a study, a person lying supine in bed with his right hand on his chest and his right knee raised. This angle from the side and below gives the impression that the person ...

    ART29202.008

  12. Hospital Alexishafen; [Study of men working on the Theatre]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Recto: Australian Army Medical Corps, No 3 Casualty Clearing Station Verso:Three studies of male torso from the rear, and one full study from the side features the down ward thrust of the axe into so...

    ART29202.001

  13. Primrose Cottage

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    The wing of the cottage, quarters of the first nursing sisters of the Australian Army Nursing Service to be attached to 2/14th Australian Field Ambulance, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22401

  14. Q Store - 35 Battalion

    Art

    Maker: Hanke, Henry

    The Quartermaster's Store, 35th Australian Infantry Battalion, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART23787

  15. Sergeant Francis Ker

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Depicts a portrait of SX10535 Sergeant Francis George Innes Ker, 2/14 Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, Alexishafen, New Guinea.

    ART22668

  16. Sister Goldstein working in the Blood Bank 111 C.C.C.DIF; [study of the roof of a barge boat with injured man]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    This is a study that shows Sister Goldstein in full surgical gown, apron, mask and cap as she works in the blood bank at the 111 Casualty Clearing Station,AIF, Finschafen. Verso: A man with his left ...

    ART29202.012

  17. [Studies of hands and a patient]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Studies of the forearms and hands of the caregiver hover above the study of a patient lying supine with a sketchy outline of the carer figure who attends him.

    ART29202.007

  18. [Studies of male workers]

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Two studies of the back and front of a male torso in various poses of activity.

    ART29202.006

  19. [Studies of surgical instruments]; After

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Three independent studies of bowls containing surgical instruments grouped inside and around the enamel bowls. The central image shows four bowls and instruments layed out on a small table, presumably...

    ART29202.004

  20. [Studies of workers]; Operating on Native

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    In the foreground there are three men seated drinking from mugs amongst the logs and cut off trees that are making room for the theatre and providing material for its construction. In the mid ground t...

    ART29202.003

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