Picture No | 12652181 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | Patient on stretcher lifted onto evacuation coach 1939 |
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Patient of Bart's hospital lifted on a stretcher into a specially fitted Green Line hospital coach. As part of the preparations for war, many buses were posted outside hospitals and converted into ambulances to evacuate patients in the case of air raids, with seats replaced by racks to carry stretchers.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in 'The Sphere', 9 September 1939, page 383 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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