Photographs [Gordon Bradley Lowe] (Series 1200)

Gordon Bradley Lowe (M.B., Ch.M. 1915) served in World War I (WWI) as a Major in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) - 3rd Australian General Hospital (AGH) and 5th Australian Field Ambulance (AFA) in Egypt and France.

The 471 photographs in this series, many taken by Lowe, are predominantly contact sheet prints, prints and postcards, with one glass lantern slide. The majority of the images have annotations on the reverse and are of the 3rd AGH in Lemnos, Greece and Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, and of the 5th AFA in France. There are images of staff nurses, hospitals, barracks, medics, and wards. While in Egypt, Lowe took many photographs while on leave. There are postcards showing Australian Imperial Force (AIF) men which were given to Lowe, as on Item REF-00003038 he writes, "For my collection at home...". There are four images of Gallipoli but from Lowe's army military record listed in the National Archives of Australia (NAA), he is stationed Lemnos, Egypt at the time, so someone may have given him a copy of those images. There are also additional images which were in an album collected by Lowe. The album was digitised but unfortunately its whereabouts are now unknown. The album contains images of Sydney University Scouts, group shots of 1912 medical students, prosectors, and sporting teams. There are also three portraits of soldiers taken from publications; again, Lowe is likely not the photographer, and he has annotated either the images or the album with dates, names and locations.

The images were put in an artificial series by the donor. A further artificial series has been imposed by the Archivist on examination of the images and the descriptions on the reverse. It is likely that as images are further identified there will be additional arrangement. The images are arranged as follows, as at 21/09/2020:

Items 001 to 003: HMAT Nestor (Owned by the Ocean SS Co Ltd, Liverpool, and leased by the Commonwealth until 26 June 1971 (from http://alh-research.tripod.com/ships_lh.htm, accessed on 19/07/2017).

Items 004 to 007: Gallipoli.

Items 008 to 069: 3rd AGH Lemnos.

Items 070 to 130, 154 to 162, 390: 3rd AGH Abbassia, Egypt; there is no Item 157.

Items 131 to 153, 198: Abbassia, Egypt.

Items 163 to 188, 391: 5th AFA.

Items 189 to 197, 199 to 201, 203 to 209, 211 to 262: Cairo, Egypt; there is no Item 255.

Items 263 to 331: Egypt.

Items 332 to 356: Barrage Du Nil, Egypt - this may refer to the Nag Hammadi, but there are several other barrages on the Nile.

Items 202, 210, 357 to 372: Rod El Farag, Egypt.

Items 373 to 389: people.

Items 392 to 394: Ireland.

Items 395 to 443: various; Items 400 to 403 are from a publication as there is print on the reverse.

Item 444: glass slide.

Items 445 to 446: Lowe.

Items 447 to 450, 454 to 458, 466 to 468: Sydney University Scouts (SUS)

Items 451 to 453, 462: prosectors .

Items 459, 463, 464: Medical students.

Item 460: visit to The Warren, Marrickville.

Item 461: Professor James T Wilson.

Item 465: Hospital Saturday, St Vincent's Hospital Group, Sydney.

Item 469, 470: sporting teams.

Item 471: 3 images of soldiers from publications.