World War II: British nurses in Normandy, 1944. Photograph, 1944.

Date:
July 1944
Reference:
2043347i
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Description

Six women around a man in a wheelchair who has had part of his leg amputated; in the background, the gates to the Palace of Westminster

Publication/Creation

[London] : War Office, July 1944.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 20.2 x 25.2 cm

Lettering

British nurses in Normandy. Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Sisters are working in Normandy art [i.e. at] the hospitals which have now been established well up towards the front line ... British official photograph (War Office Photo, Crown copy reserved). (Picture issued July 1944) Bears number: B. 5860 XC

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Wellcome Collection 2043347i

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