Royal Australian Air Force issue first aid kit : Corporal G Easterbrook, 6 Service Flying Training School, RAAF

First aid kit carried in a cotton webbing haversack. The haversack is secured by a buckle and strap and the front is stamped 'FIRST AID OUTFIT (AEROPLANES)'. The kit contains a large packaged burns dressing, several loose bandages, two grey triangular bandages compressed into a small packet and two compressed packets of absorbent wool. The kit also contains three iodine ampoules in cardboard cylinders and three vials of compressed tablets. These tablets are made up of Quinine, Aromatic chalk and Opium and Cathartic. A small metal case contains two ampoules of Morphine. A piece of cardboard printed with instructions for the use of the drugs is included in the kit.

Carried by 26093 Corporal George Easterbrook during his service at Mallala Flying Training School. Easterbrook was born on 18 March 1919 in Adelaide and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on his twenty first birthday in 1940. He served as a Fitter 2A in the repair shop at Laverton Air Force base and then moved to Geelong to work in the Aircraft Assembly plant building Fairy aircraft shipped from England. He was then posted to Mallala where he was in charge of the ground staff during night flying training as well as servicing and refueling between flights. He carried this first aid kit as the designated First Aid Officer in the event of minor accidents. He was discharged on 29 October 1945, his last unit listed as 6 Service Flying Training School at Tamworth, NSW.