Group portrait of medical and nursing staff aboard the Australian Hospital Ship HMHS Karoola. ...

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Accession Number P05768.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made 1915 - 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of medical and nursing staff aboard the Australian Hospital Ship HMHS Karoola. Identified are Sister Pearl Lottie Trayhurn (front row, second from right) and Matron Alice Mary Cooper (front row, third from right). Both nurses enlisted on 12 June 1915, Matron Cooper was awarded the Royal Red Cross Second Class in February 1917 and the Royal Red Cross First Class in April 1920. HMAT Karoola was requisitioned in May 1915 and embarked for Egypt carrying troops and general cargo on June 1915. Following this, she went to England where she was converted to a hospital ship with beds for 463 patients and spent the next three years transporting sick and wounded between England and Australia.