Mobile first aid post with three female British Red Cross VAD members and a trained nurse
Production date
1939
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Black and white photograph with caption: 'Red Cross in Action in 3 minutes, episode number 2. This scene is taken in a 'blitzed' London mobile unit post as can be seen from the pitted walls. In the ordinary way such a 'set-up' would not, of course, be seen in the open. This emergency 'first aid' hospital could be set up in a school or house near to the scene of the incident. It could be summoned to the incident by a warden reporting to ARP control and being ordered by controller to go to the particular 'indicent'.
The photograph features a VAD dressing a 'knee wound' on a young boy 'patient'. Three male members are wearing navy blue battledress and tin helmets are looking on. Various wooden boxes and cupboards are being used as tables with their contents, medical equipment and first aid dressings, set up on top. In the background there is a vehicle bearing the words 'St Marylebone Borough Council Mobile First Aid Unit'.
The photograph features a VAD dressing a 'knee wound' on a young boy 'patient'. Three male members are wearing navy blue battledress and tin helmets are looking on. Various wooden boxes and cupboards are being used as tables with their contents, medical equipment and first aid dressings, set up on top. In the background there is a vehicle bearing the words 'St Marylebone Borough Council Mobile First Aid Unit'.
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Archives
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Catalogue Number
1694/3/IN2032
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