Photographs of the World War, 1915-1916

Florence Elizabeth James-Wallace enlisted as a nursing sister on 26 April 1915 and served in No. 3, Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps, during the Egyptian and Turkish campaigns of World War I. She later served in England. She was discharged on 23 May 1919. Her collection of images of the war includes photographs of Luxor, Cairo, Australian military hospitals in Egypt, Anzac beach, Australian military hospitals and personnel on Lemnos Island off Gallipoli, and Queenslanders who served in No. 3, Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps. Some photographs may have been taken by Albert William Savage. Photographs have handwritten captions.

This collection of photographs is presented in two albums which are one of the manuscript collections of the Fryer Library. The Fryer Library is the branch of the University of Queensland Library responsible for special collections. It has extensive Australian Studies collections of published and unpublished material. Its strengths are Australian literature, history, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, art and architecture. In addition to over 100,000 volumes of publications, there are manuscripts, photographs, rare books, research theses, ephemera, dust jackets and posters. The Fryer Library is open to the public. The Fryer Library collection can be found at this location: Fryer Research Only Mss F831. Some of the photographs from the collection have been digitised and appear on UQ eSpace.

The Mitchell Library, NSW, holds a photograph album of Albert William Savage's ('Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital at Lemnos, Egypt and Brighton (Eng.)', 1915-1917), PXE 698. Some of the photographs it contains are identical to those in the two albums held in the Fryer Library, with slightly different captions.

These are some of the images from the collection. The rest can be seen at UQ eSpace.