Historical information

Photograph collection of Sister Gertrude Good (O'Halloran) from her war service during the First World War. Gertrude enlisted in Melbourne in December 1914, when she was 36 years old. She served for nearly five years until 1919. Photographs include local scenes and people in Cairo and around Egypt, the Australian Light Horse in Egypt, the 1st Australian General Hospital in Heliopolia, as well as photos from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and the miltary college in Duntroon.

Physical description

Brown hardback album with a thin dark line running vertically down the front cover an inch in from the spine and a diagonal line across the two corners of the cover on the right side. The album contains brown card pages with multiple black and white and sepia toned photographs of varying sizes on each page.

Inscriptions & markings

'J.H.O'Halloran' [handwritten inside front cover in blue ink]
'1 Crescent St / Hunters Hill' [handwritten inside front cover in pencil]
'Gertrude O'Halloran (nee Good) / Album of War Service / Enlisted in Melbourne Dec 1914 aged 36 / Served 4.5 - 5 years until 1919' [handwritten inside front cover in black ink]