Second portable hospital, USA (Captain Carl Hammer, Sergeant Fred Gaspar and First Lieutenant F Eldridge)

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Accession Number ART22167
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 34 x 47.2 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal with coloured crayon on paper
Maker Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A hospital designed to provide definite treatment close to the front. The personnel have been taken from various organised hospitals of the U.S Medical Corps. The surgeon here is exploring a gunshot wound suffered by an Australian infantryman during the battle for Buna. The assistant surgeon is swabbing the wound. The orderly sergeant is giving the anaethesia and holding a torch on the abdominal operation. From left:- Captain Carl A Hammer, surgeon, Sergeant Fred Gaspar, orderly sergeant and anaesthetist, First Lieutenant F Eldridge, assistant surgeon, A bottle containing Plasma is hanging to the right of the lights, and a tube leads from the bottle to the patient's right arm, Buna, New Guinea.