Miss Florence Nightingale's
ambulance carriage.
Julie Hawksworth writes:
Hi John
Found a postcard: Miss Forence Nightingale's Ambulance Carriage
Reverse: Printed by J W Brailsford Lea Nr Matlock
postage 1/2d inland 1d foreign
Julie Hawksworth
Florence Nightingale is given credit for the first organized effort
of caring for wounded and injured during the Crimean War 1854-1856.
The Army Medical Services Museum, in Mytchett, Surrey is now belived
to keep " a carriage used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War"
Wikipedia says:
When she first arrived in the Crimea, she travelled on horseback making
the inspections, she then transferred to a mule cart, and was reported
to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident.
Following this episode she used a solid Russian-built carriage, with
waterproof hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after
the war and subsequently given to the Nightingale training school for
nurses, which she founded at St Thomas's hospital. The carriage was
damaged when the hospital was bombed in the Blitz. It was restored and
transferred to the Army Museum in Aldershot.
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Source:Julie Hawksworth (julie.hawksworth#ntlworld.com)
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ambulance carriage.
Hi John
Found a postcard: Miss Forence Nightingale's Ambulance Carriage
Reverse: Printed by J W Brailsford Lea Nr Matlock
postage 1/2d inland 1d foreign
Julie Hawksworth
Florence Nightingale is given credit for the first organized effort of caring for wounded and injured during the Crimean War 1854-1856. The Army Medical Services Museum, in Mytchett, Surrey is now belived to keep " a carriage used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War"
Wikipedia says:
When she first arrived in the Crimea, she travelled on horseback making
the inspections, she then transferred to a mule cart, and was reported
to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident.
Following this episode she used a solid Russian-built carriage, with
waterproof hood and curtains. The carriage was returned to England after
the war and subsequently given to the Nightingale training school for
nurses, which she founded at St Thomas's hospital. The carriage was
damaged when the hospital was bombed in the Blitz. It was restored and
transferred to the Army Museum in Aldershot.
Dates:
Photo taken:
Size:Postcard
Source:Julie Hawksworth (julie.hawksworth#ntlworld.com)
Click on photo for enlargement (on CD only)
Have any more information about this photo?
Please e-mail the author on: