Historical information

Photograph album containing photos from World War II in the Middle East and New Guinea, originally belonging to Lesla Sutton. There is a correspondence card addressed to Lesla inside the album from Patsy Adam-Smith, the card thanks him for loaning the albums for her to view and use some of the images in her book 'Australian Women at War' (1984), she notes that they are 'by far the nicest' photos she has seen.
The album includes:
- a 6.75 x 9.75 coloured photo of the Nursing Staff of the 7th Australian General Hospital (A.G.H.)
- snow in Jerusalem in 1942
- people and places of Rehovath, where the 7th AGH was stationed on their arrival in the Middle East
- Gaza, Jerash, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and many other places in the Middle East
- a photo of the leaflet dropped at Tobruk by the Germans asking Aussies to surrender
- Arab people and lifestyles
- Lesla Blanshard and other nursing sisters

Physical description

Ornate brown photograph album bound with thick brown thread tied at the front. An image of David's Tower, Jerusalem is embedded in the front cover surrounded by an ornate embossed floral pattern. The inside pages are black card separated by protective translucent pages.

Inscriptions & markings

'WWII / MIDDLE EAST AND / NEW GUINEA' [handwritten in black ink on a white sticker attached to the front cover]
[multiple inscriptions on each page handwritten in white ink detailing each image]
'Lesla Sutton' [handwritten in black ink on the inside front cover behind attached photograph]