Sister Edith Blake pours medicine for a patient in a ward at the No 17 General Hospital. Sister ...

Accession Number P11193.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Alexandria
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

Sister Edith Blake pours medicine for a patient in a ward at the No 17 General Hospital. Sister Edith Blake of San Souci, NSW, served with the Queen Alexandra Imperial 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.