Group portrait of nursing sisters at No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital. The hospital was ...

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Accession Number D00037
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, Hillingdon, Harefield
Date made 25 September 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of nursing sisters at No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital. The hospital was officially closed on 31 December 1918.
Identified, left to right:
Back Row: SN Alice May Shute; SN Eileen Maude Canny; Sister Agnes Elsie Jackson; SN Jennie Winifred Jeffreys; SN Hilda Valerian Woods; Sister Ruth Stewart Taylor.
Second row: SN Dorothy Mason; SN Edith Marion Wilson; SN Sarah Mary Stafford; SN Bertha Caroline McNicol; SN Ruby Emily Olive Wilson; SN Edith Mary Toft; Sister Pearl Elizabeth Corkhill, later MM, RRC; Sister Alma Sylvia Dowe.
Front row: Staff Nurse (SN) Elizabeth Kelly; Sister Eleanor Mary Judd; Sister Agnes Wotherspoon King; Head Sister Carpenter; Matron Clara Louise Ross, later OBE, RRC; SN Janet Sorley; SN Jean Roberta Benson Walker; Masseuse Mary Josephine Jennings.

Sister Judd wears a rare round enamelled AIF badge called the Australian Army Nursing Service (1916) badge.