Accession Number | SHA/65/0010A/VN |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base |
Maker |
Shannon, Michael Barry |
Place made | Vietnam: South Vietnam, Saigon |
Date made | October 1965 |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Australian Red Cross worker, Chief Superintendent Pam Spence of Bentleigh, Vic. Pam, who ...
Description
Australian Red Cross worker, Chief Superintendent Pam Spence of Bentleigh, Vic. Pam, who previously worked with the Australian Military Forces in Singapore, is the only Australian woman in uniform in South Vietnam. Currently serving at the US 3rd Field Hospital, she attends to the needs of Australian and New Zealand troops hospitalised. She is presenting Sapper D. A. James of Liverpool, NSW, with the contents of a Red Cross patient's comfort kit containing pyjamas, thongs, shaving and toilet gear and writing material.