Informal portrait of VFX65904 Sister Helen Shirley Baker (later McCallum), Australian Army ...

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville
Accession Number 091965
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original negative film pack nitrate
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 VFX65904 Sister Helen Shirley Baker (later McCallum), Australian Army Nursing Service from Toorak, Victoria (on the right), applying a dressing to Private J Wood, a skin patient at 2/1 General Hospital. Sister Baker was born on 4 March 1916 in Reva, Fiji and served from 2 June 1941 until 7 June 1946.