Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch
Album - Photograph and media album, 121 AGH Katherine NT, 1942
... 121 AGH Katherine NT......121 AGH...Darwin 1942 Northern Territory Australian Army Nurses AANS Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) 121 AGH 121 Australian General Hospital Matron Edna Green Geoffrey Penington 'WWII / KATHERINE N.T.' ...
Photographs and an account of the Nursing Sisters and Army Hospitals set up in Darwin after the bombing in 1942 by the Japanese. Offers a very good account of the day to day lives of the Nursing Sisters and the condition 'up North' at the time.
Spiral bound photograph album, cover is covered in an image of the Australian outback bush. There is a white sticker label in the top left and a label taped on with masking tape in the bottom right.Inside pages are self-adhesive and covered in protective plastic pages, the adhesive has lost its stickiness so the pages are being held together with yellowing tape. Only four and a half of the pages contain photographs. A further two and half pages contain typed printed text.'WWII / KATHERINE N.T.' [handwritten in blue ink on the sticker label on the front cover]
'121 A.G.H./ KATHERINE. N.T. etc / Colonel Geoffrey Penington / Matron Edna Green.' [handwritten in black ink on a label taped to the front cover.]
' "BIRDWOOD" / 44 Railway Parade / Seaford. 7866019' [handwritten in blue ink in the bottom left corner of the inside front cover]darwin 1942, northern territory, australian army nurses, aans, australian army nursing service (aans), 121 agh, 121 australian general hospital, matron edna green, geoffrey penington