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Description: | The model shows Lady Helena Gleichen and Mrs Hollings of the Radiographic Section of the British Red Cross in Italy taking a radiograph of a wounded soldier during the First World War.
These two ladies, having become trained X-ray operators in 1915, raised funds to buy motor ambulances and equip them with X-ray apparatus. They volunteered themselves and their equipment to the British Red Cross Society for work at the Front. They were sent in December 1915 as Commandants and Operators of the Radiographic Section of the BRCS in Italy and were attached to the Third, and later, the Second Italian Armies. The Section was present at both Battles of Gorizia (August 1916 and October 1917). During 1916, eight English ladies worked with the Section as assistant operators for six months each. When the work ended in October 1917, the Section had carried out 12,600 X-ray examinations of wounded soldiers. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lady Feodora Gleichen | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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