Informal portrait of Sister (Sr) Dorothy Jane Louise Newton, 1st Australian General Hospital, ...

Accession Number P03668.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Grevillers
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Sister (Sr) Dorothy Jane Louise Newton, 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service, of Melbourne, Vic. Sr Newton enlisted on 3 April 1915. She was awarded the Associate of the Royal Red Cross 2nd Class on 1 January 1918 and returned to Australia on 5 February 1919 aboard HMAT Aeneas. Note the camouflage pattern painted on the wooden planks of the building behind her.