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Exhibition: The "Nurses General" - Dame Maud McCarthy

Location

Oxford House,

Derbyshire Street,
London,
E2 6HG

Dates

This exhibition CLOSED on Fri, 6th Dec 2019

This exhibition has finished.

Cost: Free of Charge

Description

This is an exhibition of the life and leadership of a great Australian and one of the most remarkable and highly decorated womens’ leaders of the First World War, Dame Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914-1919.

It brings together the ‘public’ side of Dame Maud McCarthy’s life with newly researched family and archive material from her early life in Sydney, Australia, seen for the first time. The exhibition has been prepared by Juliette Wilson, an experienced film researcher, and a descendant of Maud McCarthy’s, with images from Australia, New Zealand, the Library of Congress, Imperial War Museum and private collections.


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This exhibition has finished.

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Location

Oxford House,

Derbyshire Street,
London,
E2 6HG

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