Forges-les-Eaux, France. c. 1918-06. At a mobile hospital established by Mrs Borden Turner, a ...

Forges-les-Eaux, France. c. 1918-06. At a mobile hospital established by Mrs Borden Turner, a rich American woman, to operate behind the lines on the Western Front. In 1917-18 she employed, through the Australian Red Cross, four Australians to nurse French soldiers at her Hopital Chirurgical Mobile No. 1, situated first at Beverau, twenty miles from Dunkirk, from March 1917 at Oest Hoek, from 21 July 1917 at Rausbrugge, then from May 1918 at Forges-les-Eaux. these were Sisters Hilda Loxton, Minnie Hough, Wallace, and Lynette Crozier, who had all been among a group of twenty civilian trained nurses who volunteered in Australia in 1916 for service in France. Here Wallace and Sister Jamieson (English) stand in an air-raid trench, the only defence during bombing attacks. (Original album print held in AWM Private records 2DRL 1172)