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Album - Photograph album, Eileen Caterson, [unknown], [1955/6]

  • Light pink photograph album with feint, thin red stripes running vertically down the cover. The red spine continues an inch inwards on the left edge. The word 'Album' is repeated continuously around the top and bottom of the cover (in red text across the pink background and white text across the red spine). There is a white label stuck to the spine and to the top front cover. A black and white postcard image of a building has been taped on the front with the text 'Malaya 1955-1956' handwritten below in blue pen ink.

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  • An example of the open page layout, showing the spiral binding and multiple black and white photographs under the plastic protector sheets.

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  • Light pink photograph album with feint, thin red stripes running vertically down the cover. The red spine continues an inch inwards on the left edge. The word 'Album' is repeated continuously around the top and bottom of the cover (in red text across the pink background and white text across the red spine). There is a white label stuck to the spine and to the top front cover. A black and white postcard image of a building has been taped on the front with the text 'Malaya 1955-1956' handwritten below in blue pen ink.
  • An example of the open page layout, showing the spiral binding and multiple black and white photographs under the plastic protector sheets.

Historical information

Photographs and a news article regarding the 130th Australian General Hospital in Eta Jima, Japan. The photographs depict nurses and soldiers of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) that served at the 130 AGH. There are public relations photographs and images of staff housing and living conditions, as well as celebration dinners, a wedding, and a mass.
The article is written about Dr. John Prior, a volunteer for the Army Medical Service who went on to become the Surgeon Officer commanding the Surgical Division of the BCOF in Kure, Japan.

Physical description

Light pink photograph album with feint, thin red stripes running vertically down the cover. The red spine continues an inch inwards on the left edge. The word 'Album' is repeated continuously around the top and bottom of the cover (in red text across the pink background and white text across the red spine). A black and white postcard image of a building has been taped on the front with the text 'Malaya 1955-1956' handwritten below in blue pen ink. The pages inside are spiral bound, self-adhesive card with plastic protector sheet overlaying each page. Only the first half of the album is full, it contains black and white photographs and a photocopy of a news clipping.

Inscriptions & markings

'57A' [Handwritten in black ink on a white sticker attached to the spine]
'WWII / "Cate" Hewins ' [Handwritten in black ink on a white label attached to the front cover]
'57A' [Handwritten in gold marker on the top of the front cover]
'57A / BCOF. / 130th AGH ETAJIMA / JAPAN / DATE 7.7.1948' [Handwritten in a combination of gold and black ink beneath the attached photo on the front cover]
'MALAYA 1955-1956' [Handwritten and double underlined in blue ink on the front cover]
'BCOF. 130 AGH / LLOYD-WARD. via / 1948 - MRS EILEEN CATERSON' [Handwritten in black ink on the inside front cover]
'BCOF 130 AGH / Lloyd ward via / Eileen Caterson / August 1997' [Handwritten on an envelope that is attached with tape inside the front cover]
[Multiple inscriptions handwritten on each page to describe the images]

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