Service: Army – 2/5 Australian General Hospital
Service number: VX74303
Locality on Enlistment: Gellibrand River
Duration of Service: 13 Mar 1942 – 24 Jan 1946
Prisoner of War: No
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 23 May 1908 Cardiff, Glamorgan Wales
Parents: Charles Ernest JONES and Rose NICHOLS
Spouse: Leila Frances COOPER
School/s:
Occupation: Methodist Missionary
Date and Place of Death: 29 Apr 1991 Mulgrave
Place of Burial: Warragul Cemetery
NOTES: Victor was serving with the 2/5 Australian General Hospital when in December 1942, the news came that all had waited for, they were headed to Bootless Bay, in New Guinea. This assignment was a completely new experience – for the first time the nursing was for tropical diseases such as malaria, scrub typhus, blackwater fever, severe dysentery and many others. Each tent accommodated 80 patients, cared for by two sisters and about six orderlies. Gradually the patients became a mix of medical and surgical. At the same time, there was a severe shortage of materials, especially water. Up to that time the only antibiotics available were the sulphur drugs. Eventually, some of the tents were replaced by huts. Further reading: 2/5 Australian General Hospital – Proudly We Served – 1939 to 1945 https://www.2-5agh.org/