Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
New Zealand and Indian casualties from El Mreir at 4 Field Ambulance. | N. M. Gleeson | Frontispiece |
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4 Field Ambulance training at Burnham, 1939. | Green and Hahn | 48 |
The Dunera leaving Wellington, January 1940, en route to Lyttelton to embark First Echelon troops, including 4 Field Ambulance. | C. P. S. Boyer | 48 |
1 NZ General Hospital entrance, Pinewood, England. | N. M. Gleeson | 49 |
His Majesty the King inspects Sisters from 1 NZ General Hospital at Mytchett. With him is Matron Miss E. C. Mackay. | London News Agency | 49 |
1 NZ General Hospital, Helmieh. | New Zealand Army Official | 64 |
NZ General Hospital at Helwan. | New Zealand Army Official | 64 |
1 NZ General Hospital at Pharsala, Greece. | G. R. Kirk | 65 |
Scene near hospital area, Pharsala. | N. M. Gleeson | 65 |
4 Field Ambulance MDS camouflaged and dug in near Katerine. | P. V. Graves | 96 |
6 Field Ambulance withdrawing through Larissa. | A. H. Thomas | 96 |
1 NZ General Hospital ready to embark from Piræus for Egypt. | N. M. Gleeson | 97 |
On the Thurland Castle returning from Greece. | P. V. Graves | 97 |
New Zealand Sisters at Suda Bay, Crete. | R. D. King | 112 |
7 British General Hospital near Canea. | 112 | |
Wounded German paratroops treated at 5 Field Ambulance, Modhion, Crete. | 113 page xii | |
Wounded sheltering in a ditch at 6 Field Ambulance, near Canea. | A. J. Spence | 113 |
Hospital Ship Maunganui. | New Zealand Army Official | 178 |
Hospital Ship Oranje. | 178 | |
Wounded from Greece and Crete at mess in a ward of 2 NZ General Hospital, Helwan. | New Zealand Army Official | 179 |
1 NZ General Hospital parades before Brigadier K. MacCormick at Maadi. | New Zealand Army Official | 179 |
The hospital wadi near Sidi Rezegh after its capture by the Germans. | 194 | |
The move to Syria. 4 Field Ambulance convoy in the Bekaa Valley. | N. M. Gleeson | 195 |
Zahle in the early spring—from the site of 1 NZ CCS | N. M. Gleeson | 195 |
A civilian hospital in Aleppo occupied successively by 6 and 5 Field Ambulances. | K. G. Killoh | 210 |
3 NZ General Hospital at Beirut. | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 210 |
First nursing aids, NZ WAAC, arrive in Egypt on HS Maunganui. | New Zealand Army Official | 211 |
An American Field Service ambulance car and driver (on right) after Minqar Qaim. | New Zealand Army Official | 211 |
A blood transfusion in the desert, after Ruweisat. | K. G. Killoh | 226 |
4 Field Ambulance desert operating theatre for El Mreir casualties. | N. M. Gleeson | 226 |
5 Field Ambulance MDS receives Alamein wounded. | K. G. Killoh | 227 |
An operation by 1 CCS surgical team in the same MDS. | K. G. Killoh | 227 page xiii |
Christmas Dinner, 1942, for 5 Field Ambulance, Nofilia. | K. G. Killoh | 258 |
New Zealand Sisters at 1 CCS, Cyrenaica. | British Official | 258 |
1 CCS in wild flowers at Sirte. | D. T. Stewart | 259 |
Patients and staff gather for open-air concert at 3 NZ General Hospital, Suani Ben Adem, Tripoli. | New Zealand Army Official | 259 |
Wounded from Tebaga Gap being loaded into an air ambulance. | New Zealand Army Official (H. Paton) and K. G. Killoh | 274 |
5 Field Ambulance ADS, Takrouna. | K. G. Killoh | 275 |
4 Field Ambulance convoy returns to Egypt. | N. M. Gleeson | 275 |
5 Field Ambulance trucks moving up to the Sangro, November 1943. | K. G. Killoh | 324 |
4 Field Ambulance ADS at Casalanguida, near the Sangro | New Zealand Army Official (G. Kaye) | 324 |
4 Field Ambulance MDS at Atessa for the Sangro attack. | J. K. Elliott collection | 325 |
5 Field Ambulance ADS at the Sangro. | K. G. Killoh | 325 |
Medical staff at Atessa before the Sangro attack. | A. W. Douglas | 340 |
Patients being carried back by RAP jeep, Orsogna. | R. D. King | 340 |
1 Mobile CCS, Presenzano, Cassino. | A. W. Douglas | 341 |
4 Field Hygiene Section's shower unit near Cassino. | New Zealand Army Official (G. Kaye) | 341 |
5 Field Ambulance ADS near Mount Porchia, Cassino. | G. H. Levien | 356 |
Entrance to Maori Battalion RAP in crypt at Cassino. | C. N. D'Arcy | 356 |
5 Field Ambulance ADS at Sant' Elia, with ambulance cars parked in the shelter of buildings. | K. G. Killoh | 357 page xiv |
6 Field Ambulance MDS at Pozzilli, near Cassino. | S. de Bonnaire collection | 357 |
A class at 4 Field Hygiene Section's Malarial School, Volturno Valley. | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 372 |
Major H. T. Knights examines Italian children for malaria. | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 372 |
2 NZ General Hospital, Caserta. | New Zealand Army Official (G. R. Bull) | 373 |
1 NZ General Hospital, Molfetta. | New Zealand Army Official (G. R. Bull) | 373 |
Convalescent Depot patients on the breakwater, San Spirito. | New Zealand Army Official (G. R. Bull) | 388 |
A wounded Indian soldier being treated at 5 Field Ambulance MDS, south of Florence. | K. G. Killoh | 388 |
Colonel G. W. Gower (CO) and Matron Miss M. E. Jackson welcome the 40,000th patient to 3 NZ General Hospital, Bari. | Unit photograph | 389 |
1 NZ General Hospital, Senigallia. | A. W. Douglas | 389 |
4 Field Ambulance trucks cross the Po. | A. W. Owen-Johnston collection | 404 |
Picnic for 3 NZ General Hospital staff and patients at Polignano (on Adriatic coast) as part of the VE Day celebrations. | E. B. Gilberd collection | 404 |
A wedding at 3 NZ General Hospital, Bari. | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 405 |
Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg (with Matron Miss I. MacKinnon) shaking hands with members of the nursing staff at 6 NZ General Hospital, Florence, during his farewell visit. | New Zealand Army Official | 405 |