Collection lent by Colonel H A Powell AAMC

Accession Number C02305
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Powell, Henry Arthur
Place made Egypt: Suez Canal, Ismailia
Date made c February 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of the matron and nursing staff of the 1st Australian Stationary Hospital. Identified left to right (back row): Sister Florence Herbertson; Sister Elsie Rose Grant; Sister Emily Birkin; Sister Cecil Imogen Keith Gordon. Third row: Sister Mildred Brown; Sister Gertrude McKern; Sister Daisy Davison; Sister Mary Winter; Sister Eila Isabel Calvert; Sister Helen Maud Keith; Sister Stella Edith Pines; Sister Muriel Helen Shepherd. Second row: Sister Amy Walker McNulty; Sister Jane Hall; Sister Ethel Ridgeway Bailey; Sister Margaret Frances Eldridge; Sister Alberta Jean McKenzie; Sister Lily Campbell; Sister Elizabeth Hamilton O'Reilly; Sister Katie ('Kitty') Rees; Sister Amy Jane Hazelton-Heard; Sister R. Smith; Sister Florence Emily MacDonald; Sister Violet Mary Hardwick; Sister Mabel Tilton; Sister Ivy Agnes Ripper. Front row: Sister Frances Mary Deere; Sister Anne Kidd Hart RRC; Matron Jean N. Miles-Walker (later RRC, died of illness on 31 October 1918); Sister Nellie Constance Morrice; Sister Elizabeth Gertrude Fleming.