Photographs

Seventy-five undated and unlabelled b/w photographs taken mainly during Mary Knocker's nursing training in England and service in France [originally stored in an envelop marked 'French and nursing' and 'England and Amer(ica)']. They include: formal portraits of Sister Knocker; formal and informal group portraits of London Temperance Hospital nursing staff and students; inside an operating theatre, with apparently mock operation taking place; formal and informal shots of soldiers and nurses in and around the grounds of the casualty clearing stations or field hospitals in France, many of which include Sister Knocker [in one photograph can be seen a sign with 'No 9 General Hospital']; Sikh soldiers' camps; casualty clearing stations or field hospitals in the snow; Hospital Barge A. 109, interior and exterior; wounded soldiers outside an unknown convalescent hospital; and one photograph of Mary Knocker holding an unidentified baby.

(c.1914-1919)

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The following photographs are held by Wellcome Images: Group of wounded/bandaged soldiers outside hospital hut, c.1918, L0030783 Sikh soldiers encamped on Western Front, c.1918, L0030784