Nurses' sleeping quarters at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. Note the large red cross painted on ...

Nurses' sleeping quarters at Mobile Surgical Hospital No 1. Note the large red cross painted on the roof. The hospital was established by Mrs Mary Borden-Turner, to operate in the French section of the lines on the Western Front. In 1917-18 she employed, through the Australian Red Cross, four Australians to nurse wounded French soldiers at her hospital, known in French as Hopital Chirurgical Mobile No. 1. These were Sisters Hilda Loxton, Minnie Hough, Wallace, and Lynette Crozier, who had all been among a group of twenty civilian trained nurses who volunteered in Australia in 1916 for service in France. The hospital was situated first at Beverau, twenty miles from Dunkirk, then at Oest Hoek.