Woodman Point Quarantine Station

Trained Nurse Edith Thistlethwaite, aged 34 years, enlists in Melbourne with the Australian Army Nursing Service unit of the A.I.F on the 10th April 1915. She embarks with the FIRST AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, SPECIAL REINFORCEMENTS for duty in Egypt, France and England.
It is during this time that she keeps a photographic collection of images she took to remember her experiences during WWI. This collection contains unique photographs not only in Abbeville France, but also historic images she took on her return to Australia, where she served as Sub Matron at No. 16 AGH, McLeod Military Hospital in Victoria, and then at Woodman Point Quarantine Station, Western Australia in 1919, during which time the "Spanish Flu" crisis is at its worst, the main cause being infected troops returning home from the Great War.