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| Picture No | 12688857 |
| Date | 1939 |
| Description | Women of the River Emergency Service, September 1939 |
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Women of the River Emergency Services standing in a line in full uniform, complete with helmet and scissors slung on a cord around thier necks. The River Emergency Service was established to ensure the smooth running of the Thames during the war and stationed over a dozen aid and ambulance boats, formerly pleasure cruisers, along the river, each with a doctor, nurses and women with basic first aid training.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in ‘The Sphere’, 23 September 1939, page 458 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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