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People are created in the image of God. Not animals. God bless.

Chris YarzabDear Bible basher - The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animalis, meaning "having breath"! Also "men are born ignorant- not stupid. They are made stupid by education." -Bertrand Russell

As the war progressed and came closer to Australia’s shores, this need for more “manpower” grew even more pressing. Eventually it was conceded that women’s services would be required, though one question was still perplexing some: what exactly could women do? One woman who took up the challenge of a “man’s job” was Mary Emma Martin (nee Jackson). Before the war, Emma’s husband Bob was an ice vendor, delivering blocks of ice to Brisbane’s inner-northern suburbs, in the days before refrigerators when everyone relied on an icebox in their home to keep foodstuffs from perishing. Ice delivery was such an essential service that at first ice vendors were excused from military service; it was still quite a novel idea to think a woman could handle the job. However, when Bob Martin and other men enlisted for service, Emma took on the role, along with an estimated 50 other women ice vendors in Brisbane alone . Amid wartime crisis, these women literally kept cool and carried on! Source: www.anzacsquare.qld.gov.au/stories/australian-women-work-...

Here I suggest that the two 'helpers' are more likely Army Medical Corps men (see the red cross badge on the sleeve of the man on our left). The left-hand 'helper' is carrying the injured man's boot or boots. The right hand 'helper' is likely carrying the man's rifle. The casualty has a note pinned to his chest. He has possibly already been to the first aid post in the line and is now being carried to a casualty clearing station. Whilst in some pain, he could well have a "Blighty" wound and be sent back to the UK for convalesence. An envious situation from the viewpoint of his comrades left in the line....

fantastic capture