Homecoming of Australian Army Nursing Service members

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Sumatra
Accession Number P00431.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker The Advertiser Krischok Photo
Place made Australia: South Australia, Adelaide, Australia: South Australia, Adelaide
Date made September 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) members C Jean (Jenny) Ashton of the 2/13th Australian General Hospital (2/13 AGH) and E Mavis Hannah of the 2/4th Casualty Clearing Station (2/4 CCS) at a homecoming celebration. Both were POWs of the Japanese in Sumatra for three and a half years and aboard the SS Vyner Brooke when it was sunk.