• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000976

A group of members of the RAAF Nursing Service model outdoors their flying uniform

  • Repository Australian War Memorial, Research Centre
  • Reference P00784.016
  • Date Range 1944 - 1944
  • Description

    c. 1944. A group of members of the RAAF Nursing Service model outdoors their flying uniform of khaki shirt, slacks, gaiters, blue boots and blue forage caps. Blue fur-lined jackets were also worn at high altitudes. Specially selected sisters were trained for duty with the first complete Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit whereby a sister and a medical orderly were allotted to each aircraft used for evacuating casualties from forward areas. (This image appears on page 21 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)

  • Formats Photograph

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  • See also
    • Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) (1940 - )