SERBIA, 1919. PORTRAIT OF NURSING SISTERS STERLING (?STIRLING) AND EDITH MACKAY (ON RIGHT), AN ...

Place Europe: Yugoslavia, Serbia
Accession Number P01092.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

SERBIA, 1919. PORTRAIT OF NURSING SISTERS STERLING (?STIRLING) AND EDITH MACKAY (ON RIGHT), AN AUSTRALIAN. MACKAY WEARS THE HAT BAND, BADGE COLLAR, TIE AND SHOULDER TITLES OF THE SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, WHICH SENT HER FIRST TO CORSICA 1917 TO NURSE WAR VETERANS, THEN TO THE BALKANS. THE MEDAL SHE WEARS IS THE SERBIAN MEDAL FOR ZEAL, WHICH IS NOW IN THE COLLECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL WITH THE TARTAN HAT BAND. THE OTHER NURSING SISTER ALSO WEARS THE SHOULDER TITLE AND TARTAN FLASH IN HER CAP OF THE SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. (DONOR R. BRADNEY)