First Aid survival kit, Royal Australian Air Force

First Aid survival kit dated December 1963. The kit is packed in a rectangular aluminium tin with a hinged lid. The lid has been sprayed cream and the words '9A-02455 / KITS FIRST AID / SURVIVAL PACK / DATE PACKED / 12/63' and a Red Cross symbol stencilled on it in red. Two bands of black electrical tape originally sealed the tin. The contents are accompanied by an instruction and contents sheet which is printed in English on one side and French on the other. The kit contains a number of different medicines including morphine sulphate lozenges (for severe pain), sodium chloride (salt) tablets (for severe sweating), cyclizine hydrochloride tablets (for air and seasickness), water sterilisation tablets, proguanil tablets (for malaria) tetracycline tablets (for fever), chalk aromatic and opium lozenges (for diarrhoea), and a set of needles, thread and tweezers, each of which is contained in a small sealed aluminium tin. The kit also contains three small tubes of dibromopropamidine isethionate cream (for burns and cuts) and three small tubes of combination sunscreen and insect repellent, both sealed in plastic bags; and a range of dressings, a set of safety razors, a water bottle made from a long plastic bag with an attached suspension string and two official RAF morphine labels. The tin is supplied with a nylon liner with a drawstring for protecting the contents.

Unknown. Kit used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)