|
Date: |
|
Description: | image: A miniature retouched photographic portrait of Lady Lever in nurses uniform standing with one hand in her pocket
looking out at the viewer. There is a glass top with various jars in the foreground, and further hospital equipment behind.
Lady Lever died on 28 May 1917 of septic poisoning contracted from nursing the wounded in Hampstead General Hospital.
She is commemorated in a window in York Minster. The artist of this piece is thought to be Ethel Wright. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Death memorial civilian personnel Lever Beatrice portrait / personification medical / convalescence UK Home Front Uniforms First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|