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SIZE IN CENTIMETRES - 25.5cm x 20.5cm or 10x8 inch.

SUBJECT - The Chapel of a 17th Century monastery is being used as an operating theatre on the Sicilian front, Italy. Casualties are brought there by ambulance from the battle area less than a mile away. Here they are treated before being taken to nearby airfields and evacuated to basin hospitals by transport aircraft. In the 36 hours following the setting up of the casualty centre, 17 abdominal operations were performed at the monastery, La Casella, is near Catania. 

Surgeons performing an emergency operation on a casualty in the front line. He is still wearing his boots. Behind them in the altar of the chapel, on which are kept medical supplies. The lighting in operation from a portable generator, and operating the portable apparatus. The medical orderly is sterilizing swabs and bandages on the altar steps. 

DATE - 15.8.1943.

PRESS STAMP / Information sheet - please see images above.  

PAYMENT MUST BE MADE WITHIN 3 DAYS.