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Australian Red Cross Home Nursing Proficiency badge
Heraldry
Maker: Angus & Coote
Oxidised white metal badge, the obverse depicting a nurse's head in front of a red enamelled Red Cross, bordered by an outer circle containing, in raised script, 'AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS * SOCIETY*'. The...REL/15857
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Australia Service Medal : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32722.005
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British pattern desert goggles : Captain K M Sturtevant, 1 Health Support Battalion, INTERFET
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of painted and heavily chipped metal framed goggles with smoked glass lenses. There is no side arms but a brown cotton tie acts to hold the goggles to the wearers head. The frames of the lenses a...REL33265
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32722.004
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Defence Medal : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32722.003
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Envelope : Sister J K Greer, 2/10 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Remains of a brown paper envelope printed 'ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE', used to send an original pay book, by Registered Post, to Miss J K Greer at Petersham, Sydney. Also marked in ink 'NX70937'.REL/11816.009
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Fob watch : Lieutenant M Byrne, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
Heraldry
Maker: Solora
Small circular shaped fob watch with plain ridged metal rim. The watch is suspended from a pin backed metal clasp by a 42mm long leather bound cotton string which has partially come undone. A top mo...REL34515
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Identity card : Sister J K Greer, 2/10 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: British Red Cross Society, London
British Red Cross identity certificate for Army, Navy and Airforce personnel. Printed in red and filled in in typescript '14 Dec. 41 NX70937 S/Nurse GREER Jean Keers 10 AUST.GEN.HOSPITAL.'. Signed by ...REL/11816.008
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Identity discs : Colonel P M McCarthy, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of aluminium identity discs on a plated brass ball and link chain. One of the discs is round while the second is octagonal. Both are impressed 'F2/2 / RC / MCCARTHY PM' on the obverse and 'ABI' ...REL46367
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Improvised fork: Sister Nancy Law, Church Missionary Society, Fukushima Internment Camp, Japan
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised bamboo fork with three long straight tines. The entire length of the fork is slightly curved, following the line of the bamboo stalk.REL43207
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Josephine the kangaroo : Australian Army prisoner of war nurses, Palembang, Sumatra
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Stuffed toy female kangaroo and joey made from fine khaki cotton twill stuffed with plant matter, supported by an internal steel wire armature in the hind legs, back and tail. The main seams are machi...RELAWM30212
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Khaki fall-front trousers : Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: V. 524
Pair of khaki cotton twill fall front trousers. The trousers have deep side splits at each hip which are secured with a vertical line of three buttons on both sides. Two belt lengths are sewn into the...REL46377
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Mahjong set : Sister C M Delforce, 2/10 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Various
Hand made mahjong set comprising a set of tiles with traditional markings executed in watercolours and ink, a collection of wooden betting sticks, and a pair of dice.REL/11882
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Pacific Star : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL32722.002
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Painted souvenir Aboriginal coolamon : Alice Springs, 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Elongated oval coolamon or food carrier, carved from bean wood. The curved base of the coolamon is decorated in oil paint with a bush scene depicting a kangaroo, emu, a pair of Aboriginal men with boo...REL36107
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Painted souvenir Aboriginal shield : Alice Springs, 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Elongated oval shield carved from bean wood with a handle carved into the reverse. The front is decorated in oil paint with a bush scene depicting a kangaroo, emu, kookabuurra with snake, flora and a ...REL36106
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Painted souvenir Aboriginal woomera : Alice Springs, 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Woomera, carved from bean wood. The front is decorated in oil paint with a bush scene depicting an Aboriginal man carrying a dead kangaroo, a kangaroo and emu under a eucalypt and finished with floral...REL36108
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Red Cross fundraising 'Plaitoy' doll with handmade Australian Army Nursing uniform: Mrs Catherine Lawrence
Heraldry
Maker: Blong, Ronald E. W. Lawrence, Catherine
Doll with composition head painted in oil. A loop is incorporated into the moulded hair, and the head includes a shoulder plate, to which the body is glued. The body is made from pale orange cotton li...REL44412
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1939-45 Star : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL32722.001
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Temari ball: Sister Nancy Law, Church Missionary Society, Fukushima Internment Camp, Japan
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Traditional Japanese temari ball with a central core made from rice husks wrapped in paper which is bound into a ball shape by fine white cotton thread. An intricate interwoven pattern in cream, apric...REL43208