Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection.A black and white photograph of an American Hospital Orderly at 1st Air Cavalry Division Hospital, at Tuy Hoa, assists a Vietnamese boy in how to use crutches, needed after suffering a serious leg wound, caused by schrapnel from an artillery shell exploding close by his village home.photograph, 1st air cavalry division hospital, tuy hoa, gibbons collection catalogue, vietnamese children, american hospital orderly, wounded vietnamese children, denis gibbons

Anzac Day will commemorate not only the soldiers who gave their life for their country,r but a changed attitude to life. This is the view of Ivy Clyne, 91, Sunbury. At forty Ivy was too old to serve overseas when World War Two broke out, so she as appointed by the Department of Defence to the Heidelberg Military Hospital. There she organised training for the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and orderlies. Soldiers were shipped back to Australia from the Somme, France, North Africa and Italy as soon as they were fit enough to travel and the brand new 400 bed hospital had a constant turnover of patients. Ivy was also sent to Bendigo, Victoria to set up a 1000 bed army hospital for Americans who had suffered injury or malaria on their way to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. She was also sent to Broadmeadows Camp Hospital to set up a similar recuperative hospital. A newspaper clipping of a large black and white photo above the title and four columns of text. The photo is of an older woman standing next to a display mannequin and in front of a wall display.'Regional News Tues 24 Apr 1990' [blue ink, along top]wwii, ww2, sister crick, memorial cross, mt macedon, geyers newsagency, brook st, village green, sunbury junior fire brigade, woodend, anslow street, high street, kyneton band, garry anderson, john parker, harry western, gisborne, hamilton st, brigadier dean, robin funstan, lancefield, main st, monageeta trials and proving wing, adrian sheriff, braemar