Collection relationg to Sister Edith Blake QAIMNSR

Accession Number P11193.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1915
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 hospital staff outside a hospital. The staff include, doctors, matron, sisters, VADs, orderlies and a hospital chaplain. Amongst this group, exact position unknown, is Sister Edith Blake of San Souci, NSW, who served with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and was killed when the hospital ship she was on, the HMHS Glenart Castle, was sunk by a German U-boat on 26 February 1918. The hospital is possibly the No 17 General Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.