A nurse tending a wounded officer. According to the photograph’s original caption he has been wounded in a car accident.
Queen Mary inspecting a biplane, France, WWI.
Nurses of the St. John Ambulance Brigade hospital pose for the camera with the hospital pet, Billy, as they wait to meet Queen Mary during her visit.
A British volunteer of Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps holding her regiment’s mascot.
Female ambulance driver being presented with the Military Medal for bravery during air raids by General Plumer, France. The MM was established in March 1916 and was given to any allied national for individual or associated acts of bravery.
Refugees on the Western front, France.
Female drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in front of their Red Cross ambulances.
“Established by Lord Kitchener in 1907, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) was initially an auxiliary unit of women nurses on horseback, who linked the military field hospitals with the frontline troops. Serving in dangerous forward areas, by the end of the conflict First Aid Nursing Yeomanry members had been awarded 17 Military Medals, 1 Legion d’Honneur and 27 Croix de Guerre. A memorial to those women who lost their lives while working for the organisation, can be found at St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, London.”
Father Condron, a Roman Catholic priest, gives a cup of tea to a wounded soldier at No 35 Casualty Clearing Station, 6 October 1944.
A priest stands in the roofless shell of St. George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, on the corner of St. George’s Road and Lambeth Road in Southwark, South East London. The Cathedral was severely damaged by an incendiary bomb attack in 1942.
Photograph of the water tower of the Old Town Mills in Prague. After her deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Helene Reik yearned to record what was happening to her. This photograph was sent to Helene, who used it as paper for her diary in Theresienstadt. Helene’s makeshift diary offers wistful memories of her husband and parents who died before the war, loving thoughts of her family who had left Europe in 1939, and a firsthand account of the illness and hospitalization that ultimately led to her death. Because resources were scarce in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Helene recorded her thoughts, recollections, and diary entries in the margins and on the backs of family pictures that she had brought with her, as well as postcards and letters she received while in the ghetto.