Picture No | 10582986 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | British nurses and airmen land in France, 1939 |
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Nurses wearing a Red Cross armlet and a Red Cross ribbon round their hats disembark from a Channel steamer after arriving at an undisclosed location in France in the early weeks of World War II. Airmen can be seen coming down the gangplank. As well as luggage, the nurses are carrying steel helmets and gas masks.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in the Sphere, 7 October 1939 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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