Egyptian wall hanging

Jane (Jinny) McLennan was born in 1889 at Mount Perry, Queensland. She completed nursing training at the Bundaberg General Hospital in 1914, enlisting in the Australian Army Nursing Service on 28 May 1917. On 9 June 1917 she embarked on the RMS Mooltan from Sydney with 300 army nurses. They arrived at Port Suez on 19 July 1917 and travelled by train to Cairo and then on to Alexandria before travelling to Salonika, Greece. There she joined the nursing staff of No. 3 Unit, 60th General Hospital. In March 1918 she was invalided back to Australia with heart disease. After the war she nursed at the Rosemount Repatriation Hospital in Brisbane for six years until her marriage in 1925, and eventually settled in Mount Perry. This souvenir item is known as a Khayamiya and was obtained by Sister McLennan while in Egypt.