Medical kit : Major A R Hazelton, 2/10 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps

Small hinged metal case with spring clasp. The lid section is divided into two compartments with two metal bars in a 'T' formation to keep the contents in place. The bottom section has one metal bar across the cavity. The kit contains 18 small glass tubes of pharmaceuticals and four small instruments. The bottom section contains eight tubes of tablets. There are two tubes of morphine tartrate and pilocarpine nitrate and one tube each of cocaine hydrochloride, digitalin, apomorhone hydrochloride and strychine hydrochloride. The instuments are two small tweezers, a small brush made of clear plastic and bristle, and a steel syringe top. The lid section contains three larger tubes of tablets, one of atrophine sulphate made by another manufacturer, Parke, Davis & Company and two tubes of quinine bihydrochloride, one of which has been replaced by another drug and the name recorded in pencil. Also in the lid section are seven smaller tubes for ophlamic use. They contain cocaine hydrochloride, homotropine hydrobromide, adrelanine, homotropine hydrochloride, atropine sulphate, fluorecein and physostigmine salicyl.

This kit was carried by NX35134 Major Alan Richard Hazelton of C Company, 2/10 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. Hazelton was born in Sydney in November 1915 and enlisted in the Medical Corps on 25 July 1940. He was taken prisoner of war in Singapore in February 1942 and was held in camps along the Burma-Thai railway where he was the Senior Medical Officer for 'D Force' and at Nakom Pathom Base Camp in Thailand. He returned to Australia after the war.