Postcards relating to nursing in World War I

Date
[ca 1914-1918]
Reference
PAColl-0400-2
Description

Postcards of nurses and New Zealand army officers convalescing. They include: the hospital ship Marama in Alexandria harbour; one of a soldier in tropical uniform with the caption "Yours severely scorpioned L C Kenney 22/10/15"; two army patients signed "8/3475 L Ballantine 2/10/17" and addressed to Sister Commons at Brockenhurst Hospital; and one captioned Epsom Nursing Division St John's Ambulance from which the workers of the Epsom Convalescent Home are drawn with the following names: back row - Nurses Craig, Snelling, Reid, Morton, Beale, McLaughlan, Walsh, Cumming, Young; middle row - Nurses Baird, Sinclair, Oliphant, Neill, Commons, Dawason, Chamtalour, Goodfellow, Summer, Clark, Daubney, Mackay, M Hesketh; front row - Nurses Buller, Butler, Turner, Firth (superintendant), Dr Dudley, Towle, Abbott, Macfarlane.

Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

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Part of
Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I / Lowrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
Format
7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera
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