New Guinea. Nursing sisters attached to Finschhafen Casualty Clearing Station relax by reading ...

Accession Number 016686
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Edwards, Reg J
Place made New Guinea1, New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen
Date made 20 March 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

New Guinea. Nursing sisters attached to Finschhafen Casualty Clearing Station relax by reading the Women's Weekly and Salt magazines whilst off duty. Most of the nurses at this forward station have already seen service in England, Greece, Crete, Libya, Palestine or Malaya. Left to right: Sister D. Thompson of Adelaide, SA; Sister M. Carmichael of Casterton, Vic; Sister L. Rae of Brighton, Vic.