Picture No | 12480340 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | Outbreak of WWII - Queen visits Vincent Square hospital 1939 |
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Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) pictured visiting the Vincent Square Infants' Hospital in Victoria, London, just before the declaration of war in September 1939. Note the taped windows and sandbags already in use as a precaution against air raids.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in 'The Sphere', 9 September 1939, page 379 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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