Group portrait of nurses, local women wearing saris (possibly nurses also) and servicemen outside ...

Accession Number P05003.028
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made India: Bombay
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of nurses, local women wearing saris (possibly nurses also) and servicemen outside Saint Georges Hospital, Bombay. From left to right, front row (sitting): unidentified; TX3638 Private Keith Albert Lawler (later killed in action on 27 November 1942 in New Guinea, aged 23); TX2359 Corporal John Joseph (Jack) Lawler; unidentified. Second row: possibly SX10153 Sister (Sr) Gwendoline Dinah Henderson; unidentified; unidentified; (in uniform) VX48613 Sr Muriel Grace Everett. Partially obscured behind Sr Henderson and to her right (with glasses) is VX48623 Sr Marjory Clara Calland Scoble. Behind the local woman on the far right (partially obscured) is VX48617 Sr Rosa Hope Hasluck. In the background are unidentified nurses and servicemen.

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