The Other Anzacs (16 page)

Wounded soldiers were moved by flat-bottomed barges from Gallipoli to hospital ships waiting off Anzac Cove. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial A02740)

They were then hoisted on board in a specially made wooden cradle. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial C02277)

Wounded soldiers were then either transported to Army hospitals on Lemnos or in Egypt. Here a nurse supervises the unloading of wounded soldiers from a hospital ship docked at Alexandria. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial H00828)

Australian hospitals in Egypt weren’t prepared for the rush of wounded from Gallipoli. Here, at No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Mena House, Olive Haynes photographed the wounded sleeping on the roof on 1 May 1915. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Young)

Olive Haynes (right) enjoying a moment off-duty with fellow nurses. (Photo courtesy of Margaret Young)

Wounded Australian troops recover in an ornately decorated makeshift ward at No.1 Australian General Hospital in the Heliopolis Palace Hotel. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial H18486)

The skating rink at Luna Park was used by No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital to help cope with the overflow of wounded. Here they lie on beds made of palm wood. The crowded wards were a challenge for the nursing sisters. However, conditions would only get more difficult as the war progressed. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial P01350.013)

A group of unidentified spectators at a sports meeting held by No. 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital in the grounds of the Heliopolis Sporting Club. As an indication of how the sisters became avid photographers, three of them hold cameras. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial C00360)

Nurses of No. 2 Australian General Hospital, Ghezireh Palace, waiting for another group photograph. On one such occasion Alice Ross King was so annoyed at being ordered out of bed after night duty, and kept standing for ninety minutes, that she sat down with her back to the camera. (Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J06857)

The nursing sisters liked to keep active when off duty. Here, sisters at No. 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbassia, near Cairo, line up for a donkey race at a sports meeting.

(Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial J01748)