Informal portrait of TFX14809 Private (Pte) Ivy Belgium Rigby, Australian Army Medical Women's ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number 091957
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Bougainville
Date made 18 April 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

Informal portrait of TFX14809 Private (Pte) Ivy Belgium Rigby, Australian Army Medical Women's Service, from Sunnyside, Tasmania, doing the daily sorting of soiled linen from the wards of 2/1 General Hospital. Pte Rigby was born on 19 September 1918 in Launceston, Tasmania and served from 15 June 1943 until 10 January 1946.