Training at a mobile first aid post
Production date
1939
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Black and white photograph showing six female British Red Cross VAD members and one trained nurse in nursing uniform with tin helmets bearing the initials 'MU'. One VAD is dressing a 'knee wound' on a young boy 'patient', three others are with a young child on a make-shift stretcher, another is making notes at a table. In the background there is a vehicle bearing the words 'St Marylebone Borough Council Mobile First Aid Unit' with two male members wearing navy blue battledress and tin helmets alongside. Various wooden boxes and cupboards are being used as tables with their contents (medical equipment and first aid dressings) set out on top. There is a building on the right hand side bearing a sign with a capital 'C' with an arrow and the words 'Cleaning WOMEN'.
The photograph is captioned: 'Red Cross in Action in 3½ minutes. Episode No 3. A mobile unit consists of a trained nurse and four or five auxiliary nurses. A clerk for recording the cases etc and a male drive and male attendant. It is usual for the 'MU' to be accompanied by a doctor. The members of the Mobile Unit work in three shifts of eight hours by day and alternate nights of 16 hours. All the girls in this picture joined up during the first week of September 1939 and have been on duty ever since and in action as can well be imagined'.
The photograph is captioned: 'Red Cross in Action in 3½ minutes. Episode No 3. A mobile unit consists of a trained nurse and four or five auxiliary nurses. A clerk for recording the cases etc and a male drive and male attendant. It is usual for the 'MU' to be accompanied by a doctor. The members of the Mobile Unit work in three shifts of eight hours by day and alternate nights of 16 hours. All the girls in this picture joined up during the first week of September 1939 and have been on duty ever since and in action as can well be imagined'.
Collection Type
Archives
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Catalogue Number
1694/3/IN2033
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