Picture No | 10724639 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Miss Yvonne Fitzroy |
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Yvonne Fitzroy (1891 - 1971), British actress, and daughter of Sir Almeric Fitzroy who had been Clerk of the Privy Council since 1898, pictured in uniform during the First World War, at the time when she received 'high military decoration for her admirable war work.' She was a nurse at the Scottish Women's Hospital in Roumania and before that, worked at Mrs Dugdale's hospital in Derbyshire. She wrote a book about her experiences entitled, 'With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania.'
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Source | Photograph by Bassano in The Tatler, 8 May 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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