Melbourne, Vic. 1943-05-19. A group photograph in the Australian Comforts Fund Depot in ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number 051905
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Tait, James
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Melbourne, Vic. 1943-05-19. A group photograph in the Australian Comforts Fund Depot in Exhibition Street of members of the Returned Army Sisters' Auxiliary. This Auxiliary was a group of nursing sisters from World War I who took responsibility for the despatch of reading matter to the troops in World War II. From the left they are Miss D. Stephenson, Mrs Love, Mrs Scott Murphy, Miss Maud Philp, Miss W. Forster, Mrs E. Hargraves, Miss E. Jackson, Miss M. Horton, Miss O. Holloway, Mrs G. Horne, Miss J. Stephenson, Miss Maud Barter and a casual worker, name unknown.