Photographs from the Vietnam War [PRG 1540/3/1-223] • Photograph


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Clinic run by the hospital unit for the civilian population


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Open verandah (used as a pathology lab) was enclosed about January 1960


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Open verandah (used as a pathology lab) was enclosed about January 1960


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Interior of the lab, with the Red Cross library visible through the door


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Grantly Payze (SA conscript) using a binocular microscope


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Grantly Payze (SA conscript) using a binocular microscope, with John Vangelis (SA conscript) in the forground


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Laboratory staff - (standing, from left) Elliot Bishop, Grantley Payze, Don Hemesley, (in front from left) - Peter Sheppard, Geoff Barnes, (in background) Cameron Baird


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'A Christmas cake sits in the laboratory awaiting dissection'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
John Vangelis at the lab bench


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'Our pathologist contemplates a problem'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Wheeling patient into ward


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'Fire of unknown origin - possibly at the rubbish dump


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Flower study, Vietnam


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Hospital staff in the breezeway between triage and intensive care waiting for incoming patients


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Staff move to edge of helipad


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Staff shield from sand blown up by the helicopter


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Staff shield from sand blown up by the helicopter


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'We load replacement stretchers and the pilot takes off immediately'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Helicopter


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'The team moves in to unload the wounded'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'Only one patient this time'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'The casualties are taken straight to triage'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Road built to helipad


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Helicopter landing with wounded


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'A sunset landing'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'A "gunship" takes off straight over our sleeping quarters'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Flower study, Vietnam


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Geoff on Back Beach, Vung Tau (immediately behind 1st ALSG, with Radar Hill in background


Photographs from the Vietnam War
'A soldier heads down for a dawn dip'


Photographs from the Vietnam War
Locals enjoying the beach