Portrait of Australian and South Vietnamese medical personnel standing in front of the entrance ...

Accession Number P04999.029
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker McCormack, Judith
Place made Vietnam: An Giang Province, Long Xuyen
Date made April 1966
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Portrait of Australian and South Vietnamese medical personnel standing in front of the entrance to the operating ward, waiting for the flag raising ceremony at Long Xuyen hospital. Long Xuyen civilian hospital was located in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam and several Australian civilian surgical teams volunteered to serve there during the Vietnam War. Identified from left: Unidentified; unidentified; Miss Marea Fennell; Dr Peter Higgs; Desmond Hurley; Miss M O'Connor; Miss M Cornish; Urologist, Mr Jim O'Collins.

Related information

Conflicts