Women of the River Emergency Service, September 1939
Women of the River Emergency Services standing in a line in full uniform, complete with helmet and scissors slung on a cord around thier necks. The River Emergency Service was established to ensure the smooth running of the Thames during the war and stationed over a dozen aid and ambulance boats, formerly pleasure cruisers, along the river, each with a doctor, nurses and women with basic first aid training
Picture No
12688857
Media ID
46142091
Size
4661px x 4517px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere', 23 September 1939, page 458
Date
1939
