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| Picture No | 10794224 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Description | Elsie Knocker rolling bandages at Pervyse |
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Elsie Knocker (known here as Baroness de T'Serclaes after her second marriage to a Belgian in 1916), nurse and ambulance driver pictured here rolling bandages in the cellar at Pervyse, near Ypres, Belgium where, together with Mairi Chisholm, she established an advanced dressing station in the cellar of a house. Both were awarded the Military Medal for their bravery and work with the wounded on the Western Front in Belgium. The pair initially joined the Voluntary Emergency Corps but then later set up their own first aid dressing station just 100 yards from the trenches at Pervyse, north of Ypres. Elsie concentrated on providing medical attention while Mairi transported injured soldiers to the base hospital fifteen miles away, often in highly dangerous conditions. Their bravery attracted journalists and photographers and the became some of the most photographed women of the war
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| Source | Photograph in The Sketch, 21 November 1917 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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