Baria, South Vietnam. June 1971. The Director of the Army Nursing Service, Colonel P. M. McCarthy ...

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Accession Number PJE/71/0298/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Errington, Philip John
Date made 1971
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

Baria, South Vietnam. June 1971. The Director of the Army Nursing Service, Colonel P. M. McCarthy of Canberra, ACT (centre), spent six days in South Vietnam on a tour which included visits to Australian, American and Vietnamese hospitals. During her visit to the Baria Hospital in Phuoc Tuy Province, she was shown operating equipment by a Vietnamese nurse (left) and a medical student.