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Description: | Portrait of Miss Hedvica M. Shlehover in VAD uniform. The artist, Hans Knoechl, was a friend of Miss Shlehover's father. The painting is signed and dated 1910. By the outbreak of war in 1914 Miss Shlehover was enrolled as a member of London/38 and undertook various duties, working with Belgian refugees and as a housemaid and later Assistant Quartermaster at hospitals in Balham. She was mentioned in Dispatches in January 1919. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | British Red Cross Museum and Archives | Rights holder: | British Red Cross Museum and Archives | Subjects: | London at War Science and Medicine | Temporal: | 1910 | Source: | Red Cross Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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