| Place | Asia: Philippines, Luzon, Manila |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 019149 |
| 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
|
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. Methodist Missionary nurses in Manila, after release from ...
Description
Manila, Philippines. 4 September 1945. Methodist Missionary nurses in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. The larger group of which they were part was 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. This image shows three of the four Methodist Missionary nurses. Left to right: Dorothy Beale (part obscured), Mavis Green and Dora Wilson.