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Picture No 10724111
Date 1918
Description Duchess of Westminster with her hospital staff, WW1
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Constance Edwina 'Shelagh' (née Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), First wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster. Pictured at the time she was working as a Red Cross nurse at the front, running her own hospital at Le Touquet in France (known as No. 1 Red Cross, Duchess of Westminster's Hospital). She is pictured here (centre) with some of her staff. The hospital pioneered many new methods of healing for wounded soldiers and had an electro-therapeutic department and X-ray department. All the nurses were expert masseuses. Pictured here are Captain Stone, the X-ray expert, with his Orderlies, Miss Molesworth, the Duchess and Miss Richmond, V.A.D nurse.
Source Photograph in The Sketch, 20 March 1918
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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