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Countess Beatty

Dorothy Power, Countess Beatty, second wife of David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty pictured in 1940. During the war she ran an RAF officers club in France as well as a Church Army canteen. She then turned her town house into a depot for Naval Comforts (knitwear), running it for the Navy League, of which her husband was Chairman. Shown here with large piles of knitted garments

Picture No
14029723
Media ID
47840769
Size
3958px x 5175px (3.6MB)
Credit
© The Estate of Nancy Sandys Walker / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Nancy Sandys Walker (1910-1988) for Harper's Bazaar, October 1940
Date
1940

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Comforts Depot Garments Knitted Knitting Knitwear Voluntary


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