An officer and a cook of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) with two local employees ...

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Accession Number P02212.058
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Vines, Dorothy Alexander
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Nazareth
Date made May 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An officer and a cook of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (2/1st CCS) with two local employees in the hospital's kitchen in the convent Terra Santa (or Sancta) where the unit set up their hospital for the Syrian Campaign. Note the large cooking stoves. The convent was referred to by the Australians as "Sancta Casa".