Historical information

Clipping one - 'Meningitis case in Bonegilla area' - A case of cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported from the troops on the Bonegilla military camp. The man was recovering, said the Deputy-Director of Medical Services, Southern Command,with all precautions against the spread being taken, including isolation of contacts and the unit. Colonel Shaw went on to emphasise that there was no need for alarm as the disease did not appear to present in epidemic form and the likelihood that it would assume epidemic proportions reduced every week.
Clipping two - 'Deaths in army casualty list' - Army casualty lists for Victoria and New South Wales. Victoria - In Australia: Gunner J Burgess, Pte WH Chute: died of illness; Pte AD Mathers, Pte W Walsh: placed on dangerously ill list; Gunner OJ Carkeek: removed from seriosly ill list; Abroad: Pte JW Bruce: placed on dangerously ill list; Pte JW Nuttall: removed from seriusly ill list. New South Wales: Abroad: Pte EJ Maples: accidentally killed; Gunner AAGV Peterson: placed on seriously ill list.

Physical description

A photocopied page of two single column newspaper clippings from separate newspapers beneath a black and white photo of a woman in nurse's uniform and three men standing in front of a tent.

Inscriptions & markings

'SEPT 1940' [blue ink, left side middle'
'CAPT. DON / BROWN / SISTER B. / HAYNES / GUNNER / CARKEEK / (PATIENT) / PTE. DE [MM]' [blue ink, right side middle]
'PATIENT / RE[CORDED/COVERED] / A[?ded] / OUT of ARMY / RE-EnlistED / AnD SERVED / In SAME[underlined] LM[E/] / [line leading into clipping text] 9211 FD. Reg. / IM ME.' [blue ink right side, lower]
[line indicating a line in the text, blue ink, middle lower]