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| Picture No | 10793549 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Description | Miss Mairi Chisholm and Captain W. T. Hall |
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Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm, better known as Mairi Chisholm (1895-1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, who together with Elsie Knocker (known as Baroness de T'Serclaes) was 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. Mairi is pictured here with Captain W. T. Hall M. C. of the R.A.F at the time of their engagement in September 1918. By this point, she had joined the WRAF.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 11 September 1918 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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