Some of the medical and nursing staff in the courtyard of the building, formerly the Grand Hotel, ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number P01908.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Place made France
Date made c September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Some of the medical and nursing staff in the courtyard of the building, formerly the Grand Hotel, housing the infectious diseases hospital at Palavas-les-Flots near Montpellier on the Gulf of Lyons. Left to right: Sisters Hilda Loxton and Minnie Hough, Australian nurses employed here by the London Committee of the French Red Cross from August to December 1917; Matron Bullock (English); the French medical superintendent; English voluntary aides Miss Bullock and Mrs Ritchie. Loxton and Hough were among a group of twenty trained nurses who volunteered in Australia in 1916 for service in France.