Rausbrugge, Belgium. c. 1917-09. In the operating theatre at a mobile hospital established by Mrs ...

Rausbrugge, Belgium. c. 1917-09. In the operating theatre 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, then from 21 July 1917 at Rausbrugge. 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 French surgeon Dr de Parthenay and English Sister Hamming work on the sutured leg of a wounded French soldier. (Original album print held in AWM Private Records 2DRL 1172)