New Guinea. Australian Medical Women's Auxiliary Service girls take it in turn to wait on tables ...

Accession Number 016966
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Short, Gordon Herbert
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 17 April 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

New Guinea. Australian Medical Women's Auxiliary Service girls take it in turn to wait on tables at messtime. In the kitchen of a hospital are, left to right, Private (Pte) Dawn Whitter of Moonee Ponds, Vic, dishing up the vegetables, Pte Len Jarvis of Toorak, Vic, cook, carving the meat, Pte Helen Parker of Killara, NSW, and Pte Nan Lyon of Beecroft, NSW, ladling the soup into bowls. Before the war Pte Parker was a socialite, and Pte Whitter an accountant's clerk.