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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: SUBIACO VOLUNTARY AID DIVISION

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Overview

The black and white photograph shows a group of women of the Subiaco VAD arranged in three rows, the front row seated, in front of the wall of a building. They are all in nursing uniform as in 1985.128 with different caps. These are shaped to the head with an extra length like a scarf, falling down the back. Sister Van Dahl, who instructed the division in simple nursing procedures (taking temperatures, pulse and respirations, giving injections, urine testing, sponging and bed-making), sits in the centre of the front row wearing a white sister's uniform.
Left-right, from upper left hand corner: D. Rutherford, D. Crofts, N. Williams, M. Devlin, ---, M. Snooks, N. Mercer. E. Evans, C. Lowe, B. Spencer, M. Wells, C. Ware, P. Hannigan, B. Preston, S. Williams, Muriel Benjamin, E. Phillips, R. St…. Cath Armstrong, M. Joachim, M. Mercer, I. Fullarton, Mrs Thomas (founder), Sister Van Dahl, Mrs Buchan, Constance Graham, M. MacIntyre.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1985.129

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

210 mm

Height or length

125 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Illustrations Ltd, Perth

Keywords

Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)

VAN Dahl, Sister

Statement of significance

Local and social history

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