
Craftsmen at work at the Repatriation Artificial Limb Appliance Centre in 1961.

Mr JC Appleton, survivor of the sinking of HMAS Canberra, uses a lathe at the Caulfield Repatriation Hospital artificial limb factory to create prosthetics for other amputees, 1946. Over the past century, the techniques and materials used for prosthetics have undergone dramatic changes, and current appliances are a vast improvement on those first supplied at the end of the First World War. (AWM 131242)