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  • Dame Maud McCarthy GBE RRC: the Matron-in-Chief in France of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Dame Maud McCarthy GBE RRC: the Matron-in-Chief in France of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

    (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

    image: a half length portrait of Dame Maud McCarthy, wearing her distinctive grey and red QAIMNS uniform and sitting at a desk. On the desk in front of her is a vase of roses, a wooden letter rack, two bottles of ink and a bust of an injured male patient...

  • Dame Rachel Crowdy RRC: the Principal Commander of the VADs Dame Rachel Crowdy RRC: the Principal Commander of the VADs

    (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

    image: a head and shoulders portrait of Dame Rachel Crowdy, wearing a dark Voluntary Aid Detachment tunic. Her hair is tied up in a bun and she looks towards the right.

  • A Nursing Orderly (Indoor): Endell Street Military Hospital, London A Nursing Orderly (Indoor): Endell Street Military Hospital, London

    (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

    image: a three quarter length portrait of a female nursing orderly wearing a flowing white dress and standing next to a shelf bearing two metallic circular receptacles. She looks over her right shoulder towards the viewer.

  • Dr Flora Murray: Endell Street Hospital, London Dr Flora Murray: Endell Street Hospital, London

    (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

    image: a portrait of Dr Flora Murray sitting at a desk in an office at Endell Street hospital in London, looking down at something on the surface of the desk. The hand of a colleague is visible on the desktop to the left, showing that Murray shares the...

  • Nurse Cavell at Westminster Abbey : After the Armistice her body was brought in state at Westminster Abbey, 15th May 1919 Nurse Cavell at Westminster Abbey : After the Armistice her body was brought in state at Westminster Abbey, 15th May 1919

    (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1919-05-15

    image: a group of British soldiers carry the Union Jack draped coffin of Nurse Edith Cavell towards a group of senior clergymen standing in the entrance to Westminster Abbey. A group of onlooking civilians stand in the right foreground, with a parade of...

  • Ambulances Ambulances

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

    image: two British motor ambulances on the bend of a road, with trees to the left and a building in the background to the right. Only the front end of the second ambulance is visible, on the far right of the composition.

  • Tents Tents

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

    image: a few large tents of a medical military camp, with two sketched figures in the right foreground. There is a line of trees behind the tents and the sea beyond.

  • 'Con: Camp' - Genoa 'Con: Camp' - Genoa

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive 1919

    image: a view across the large tents of a military camp, with some of the buildings and a church spire of Genoa in the background. The sea is visible to the right.

  • Tents Tents

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

    image: a view of three bell tents of a military camp set amongst trees on a coastline. The sea is visible behind, with further coastline on the horizon.

  • From Ypres Ramparts From Ypres Ramparts

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

    image: a view across the devastated Belgian landscape outside of the city walls of Ypres. A road runs from the left foreground into the distance to the right, lined with bare and bomb damaged tree stumps. The remainder is largely featureless mud.

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