IMAGE
Doctor Cooper and Miss Bedford cleaning boots outside a tent, Serbia.
- Date
- 1916-1917
- Reference
- PA1-o-1013-07-1
- Description
Doctor Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford standing outside Doctor Cooper's tent, cleaning their boots, Ostrovo, Serbian Macedonia. Probably photographed by Doctor Agnes Bennett some time in 1916 or 1917.
Dr Cooper and Josephine Bedford were life long friends and companions. They met while at London University, and emmigrated to Brisbane in 1891 where Dr Cooper set up practice. During the First World War they joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreigh Service, and spent a year in the 7th Medical Unit (also known as the American Unit) commanded by Dr Agnes Bennett, and attached to the Serbian Army. Dr Cooper joined as a surgeon, and Josephine Bedford as an orderly.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 7.4 cm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs / With the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the Serbian/Bulgarian war
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print, 10 x 7.4 cm
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