Group portrait of officers and nursing sisters, probably on the top deck of HMAT Ulysses (A38), ...

Group portrait of officers and nursing sisters, probably on the top deck of HMAT Ulysses (A38), at a Melbourne wharf. Left to right are: Lieutenant (Lt) Hamilton (probably Lt Charles Hamilton, 23rd Battalion); Lt Norman Pelton (Lt Norman Gilbert Pelton, 24th Battalion, KIA 12 May 1917); Lt William John Craze (24th Battalion); Sister Graham (probably Sister Elizabeth Margaret Josephine Graham, AANS); Lt Preston (probably Lt Reginald Lawrence Preston, 13th Light Horse); Sister Palmer (probably Sister Elizabeth Palmer, AANS); Lt Gibbons (probably Lt Reginald Leslie Alfred Gibbons, 13th Light Horse); Lt Harold Maughan Pullin (24th Battalion) and Lt Walker (unable to further identify). The identified officers all embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses on 27 October 1915, and the Sisters were in Melbourne at this time. In June 1915 Sisters Graham and Palmer had embarked together for service at No. 1 Australian General Hospital in Heliopolis, Egypt. On 3 September 1915 they embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses to return to Australia, caring for invalided soldiers on the journey. They continued nursing patients on a train journey to South Australia, before returning to Melbourne. The sisters later returned to Egypt.