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Photographs of Jean Debelle in Vietnam [B 75181/43] • Photograph

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Summary

First hospital built at Vung Tau, a WW2 issue tent, with holes in the roof that leaked when raining. The sandbags were not high enough to protect patients in beds

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Physical description

26 photographs : black and white, colour ; 21 x 15.8 cm or smaller
44 photographs : digital

Dates / Publication details

1966-1967

Photographer

Lamensdorf, Jean Debelle

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Lamensdorf, Jean Debelle, 1940-
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Participation, Australia

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General notes

Items 27-70 held as digital copies only.

Item 45 has been removed from the collection at the request of the donor.

Historical information

In 1966 Jean Debelle was working as a newspaper journalist for the Adelaide Advertiser when she volunteered to work for the Red Cross in the Vietnam War as a welfare worker with the troops. Jean spent a year caring for wounded ANZAC troops (from June 1966 until June 1967) in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Jean fulfilled another year for the Red Cross in Butterworth, Malaysia, and then returned home to Australia to work as a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Women's Weekly, Editor of the now defunct Woman's World, and co-Editor of Woman's Day with Jerry Lacey, until Fairfax sent her to New York in 1980. She retired in 1995 after eleven years as an executive at Ziff-Davis Publishing in New York where she maintained international editions of PC Magazine and other computer titles. Jean married Jack Lamensdorf in the US and lived in Pennsylvania for sometime. Jean now lives in Adelaide and occasionally speaks to local groups about Australia and Vietnam. Her book 'Write home for me: a Red Cross woman in Vietnam' is held in the Library's collection.

Digitisation information

Date

18/02/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,420 x 2,345 pixels (8.0 MP)

Size

24.08 MB

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