Picture No | 10948676 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Duchess scrubbing floors in hospital, WW1 |
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Hospital Worker: "Would you be so good as to get me a pail of water, my man?"
Patient: "Dash me, woman, I'm a major!"
Hospital Worker: "Dash me, man, I'm a duchess!"
Humorous cartoon commenting on the active part played by aristocratic women in hospitals and other voluntary areas during the First World War.
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Source | Illustration by J. H. Dowd in The Bystander, 13 November 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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