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  • Australian Army Nursing Service (24)
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  • Heysen, Nora (35)
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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. Head of a surgeon (Major Thomas Wilson)

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Portrait of NX113199 Major Thomas Edward Wilson, a surgeon with 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), wearing a mask, cap and gown for operating.

    ART22406

  13. 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

  14. Pathologist (Major Henry Lancaster)

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Depicts a portrait of NX35110 Major Henry Oliver Lancaster, AAMC, Pathologist 111 Aust Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Medical Corps, Alexischafen, New Guinea.

    ART22670

  15. Patient at Alexishafen Hospital

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Douglas

    Possibly a Casualty Clearing Station rather than a hospital, with an unidentified man reclining on a stretcher, and a doctor attending another patient in background.

    ART23732

  16. 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

  17. Q Store - 35 Battalion

    Art

    Maker: Hanke, Henry

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

    ART23787

  18. 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

  19. Sister Ellen Moriarty

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Portrait in uniform of Sister Ellen Moriarty, NFX70524, a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station; AANS, Sister in Charge 111 Aust Casualty Clearing S...

    ART22118

  20. 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

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