Dutch hospital ship "Oranje" leaves Melbourne for Batavia.

Dutch hospital ship "Oranje" leaves Melbourne for Batavia. A sing-song around the piano in the lounge of the hospital ship "Oranje", before she left her berth at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, on 23rd October, 1945, bound on a mercy mission to Batavia. Left to right: Lieut. Lothian, N.Z. Army, Nurse M. Fenton, Chaplain J.D. Froud, N.Z. Army (at the piano)Lieut. J.E. Everse, RNI Army aide-de-camo to Colonel Gerads, Medical Commanding Officer of "Oranje", Lieut. Col. J.H. Pettit, A.D.M.S. 1st Div. N.Z. Army, and Nurse A. Gailford, N.Z. Sister. NI 329