Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), all staff of 2/10th Australian General ...

Accession Number P03315.009
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made February 1942 - March 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), all staff of 2/10th Australian General Hospital, after their evacuation from Singapore in the cargo vessel Empire Star. Identified, left to right: Sister (Sr) McMillan; Sr Marsden; QFX19069 Captain (Capt) Irene Dorothy (Dorothy) Ralston (with hand on shoulder); VX38909 Lieutenant (Lt) Bertha (Betty) Pump; NX70496 Capt Joyce Lockhart (Joy) Bell; QX22814 Lt Margaret Constance Selwood; Miss Bonnie Howgate (physiotherapist); unidentified; NX70521 Capt Mavis Alice Clough; NX76286 Lt Ida Arundel Morse; Miss Thelma Gibson (physiotherapist); SX11646 Lt Elizabeth Merle (Betty) Pyman; Miss Merrily Higgs (physiotherapist); Sister Oliffe (probably NX70518 Margaret May Olliffe); unidentified.