Place | Asia: Philippines, Luzon, Manila |
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Accession Number | 019147 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white, Landscape |
Physical description | Black & white, Landscape |
Date made | 4 September 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. A group of nurses and civilians in Manila, after release ...
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. A group of nurses and civilians in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. The group is made up of Australian Army nurses, civilian nurses from the Rabaul Government Hospital, Methodist Missionary nurses and a civilian, Mrs Bignell, all captured at Rabaul, and Mrs E. Jones, an American school teacher captured in the Aleutian Islands. Left to right: civilian nurse Grace Kruger; civilian nurse A. Beaumont; civilian nurse Jean McLellan (front); civilian nurse Joyce McGahan (back); Jean Christopher, Methodist nurse (front); Dorothy Beale, Methodist nurse (back); civilian nurse Dorothy Maye (middle); Mrs E. Jones, an American school teacher (front); Dora Wilson, Methodist nurse (back, obscured).