Collection relating to the service of Sister Elsie Grace Dobson

Accession Number C00357
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made December 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Staff Nurse Elsie Grace Dobson (left) and Staff Nurse Helen Eliza Milne (right), Australian Army Nursing Service, who were attached to one of the hospital trains running between Heliopolis, near Cairo, and Ismailia, near the Suez Canal. The two women are standing in front of one of the train carriages, which has a red crescent painted on a white background, indicating that it was captured from the Turks.