Studio portrait of Major Henry Hume David Turnbull, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Major ...

Accession Number P09381.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker J Weston & Son
Place made United Kingdom: England, United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made c 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

Studio portrait of Major Henry Hume David Turnbull, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Major Turnbull was a physician from Toorak, Victoria, when he applied for a commission in the AAMC at the outbreak of war. He left Australia with the No.1 Australian General Hospital (1 AGH) on the hospital ship HMAT Kyarra. He saw service in Egypt, then in France. He returned to Australia in 1918.