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Picture No 10700915
Date 1915
Description River trip for wounded soldiers, WW1
Details

An up river trip on the River Thames from Kingston to Walton and back for wounded soldiers convalescing at the Victoria Hospital Chelsea arranged by the print-machine managers at the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd. The machine-managers arranged for a private motor bus to convey the soldiers from hospital to Kingston bridge where they boarded the Sunbury Belle. They had lunch on board and on the way back, a Union Jack flags was flown from Kingston bridge and the whole company stood to sing the National Anthem.
Source Photograph in The Sketch, 9 June 1915
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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