Informal outdoor group portrait of nurses at an Australian General Hospital in New Guinea, off ...

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Accession Number 014982
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea
Date made 10 June 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal outdoor group portrait of nurses at an Australian General Hospital in New Guinea, off duty and hiking through thick kunai grass. Identified from left to right: Sisters NX133243 Lieutenant (Lt) Edith Muriel McElnea from Ingham, North Queensland; NX133244 Lt Marjorie Alberta Conroy from Brisbane, Queensland; A Wynter from Townsville, Queensland; J Page from Hurstville, NSW; NFX115453 Lt Edna Minnie Lowrey from Gloucester, NSW; TFX6133 Lieutenant Colonel Ethel Adelaide Baxter from Pipers River, Tasmania; NX115451 Lt Elizabeth Kathleen Mary Franklin from East Moree, NSW.