Interior of a treatment area of the hospital decorated with Christmas decorations. A number of ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Kent, Dartford
Accession Number P01840.013
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made United Kingdom: England, Kent, Dartford
Date made December 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

Interior of a treatment area of the hospital decorated with Christmas decorations. A number of patients are having wounds bandaged by medical staff. Standing behind the table (third from the left) is the matron of the hospital Matron Mary A. (Bessie) Pocock, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), a veteran of the Boer War. On the right is Staff Nurse Irene Kiernan.