Bloody but unbowed 15 April 1951
Private ‘Bomber’ Brown of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment was wounded in the head by a grenade during A Company’s attack on Hill Sardine.
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial 147334
Medical evacuation, 2nd Field Ambulance, Vung Tau, Vietnam 1967
artist Bruce Fletcher
oil on canvas on hardboard
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial ART40580
On the veranda at Vung Tau November 1968
The first four Australian Army nurses arrived in Vietnam in April 1967, serving at the Eighth Field Ambulance hospital in Vung Tau. Their numbers were increased in April 1968, when the hospital at Vung Tau became the First Australian Field Hospital.
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian War Memorial EKN/68/0122/VN
Blood pressure 16 June 2016
Leading Seaman Rob Dixon (left), an Advanced Medical Assistant, takes an American servicewoman’s blood pressure at a hospital at Kabul airport. Captain Yan Yan, the senior Australian Defence Force medical officer in Afghanistan, looks on.
Reproduced courtesy of the Australian Defence Force