Historical information

From information book - "Reader's Gigest/ Gallipoli/ 25th Aril 1915 - 9th January 1916/ Centenary Commemorative Prints". Collection of 20 prints
Refer Cat No. 7300.

Physical description

Framed print.
Print - colour print on paper. Copy of an oil on canvas painting. Depicts a "Hospital ward where several nurses attend a patient in bed", against a background of "beds being made ready in the ward" and "Stretcher bearers carrying in more wounded".
Frame - black plastic framing with glass front and MDF board backing with adhered black paper.

Inscriptions & markings

Details below print - in black ink.
"GEORGE COATES (1869 - 1930). First Australian wounded at Gallipoli arriving at Wandsworth Hospital, London". 1921.
"Served with the Royal Army Medical Corps at 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth".
1919 Commissioned to do portrait work for the Australian War Records section.