Captain Brian Pockley was a doctor in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) and a member of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in the Battle of Bita Paka on German New Guinea on 11 September 1914, becoming the first New South Welshman and the first Australian officer to die in World War I.
Among the entries in the Port Macquarie Small Debts Register is one of Port Macquarie’s more notable residents - Dr Charles Lamonnerie Dictus Fattorini, rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
This photographic series includes internal and external views of the baby clinics, mothers and babies in waiting rooms, babies receiving attention and possibly mothers holding babies being instructed by the nurses.
These photographs were collected by the NSW Board of Pharmacists and associated with the Board's roll in keeping records relating to people registering as Pharmacists in NSW.
