| Accession Number | P02523.001 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white |
| Physical description | Black & white |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Bombay, India. c 1917. Informal portrait of Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp, a member of ...
Description
Bombay, India. c 1917. Informal portrait of Staff Nurse (S/Nurse) Edith Maud Philp, a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), standing on the roof of Victoria War Hospital (situated in a new railway office building close to the docks) in Bombay. S/Nurse Philp was one of a contingent of one hundred nurses requested to work in British War Hospital in Bombay. S/Nurse Philp, who trained at Caulfield Hospital, travelled to Bombay on the Canberra. She worked at the Victoria War Hospital, a hospital with two hundred beds on each of the first three floors and Sister's quarters on the fourth. This hospital received the most serious cases as it was five minutes from the dock. Patients were received from Mesopotamia, and they included British Prisoners of War (POWs) released by the Turks, Turkish prisoners and British troops. At one stage British troops suffering from heatstroke were received at one thousand a week. (Donor E. Pearce)