Picture No | 10700201 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | Mrs Wynne decorated with French Croix de Guerre |
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Decorated with the French Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Order of Leopold for work at the front, and pictured on the cover of The Sketch magazine when she was going to Russia with the Anglo-Russian Bevan Ambulance Cars Unit where she planned to set up a dressing station and small mobile hospital as near the front as possible. The Sketch reports on Mrs Wynne's appeal for subscriptions to help her provide surgical instruments, anaesthetics, folding-beds, dressings, splins adn the upkeep of cars and dressing station.
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Source | Unattributed photograph on the front cover of The Sketch, 22 September 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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