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Red Cross Re-enactment, Helston Railway Station, 1912
Number | HESFM:2012.11901.5 |
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Place | Helston Railway Station Cornwall United Kingdom |
Date | 24.9.1912 |
Keywords | Trades and Professions Medical People Helston |
Photographer | Hawke, Alfred Herbert |
Copyright | © Estate of A H Hawke |
Photographic postcard showing Red Cross nurses re-enacting a disaster at Helston Railway Station on 24 September 1912. The photograph shows nurses carrying a stretcher after they had taken it over a fence. The station buildings can be seen in the background and there are a number of children looking on. The back of the postcard states "After they were sucessful in getting the stretcher over. Miss Gwen Tyacke taking the lead. Ella Rowe's face is shown very plainly. Sept 24/12". Photograph by A H Hawke of Helston.