Item MM 110909 Digital Photograph - Gwendolen Luly in Nurse's Uniform & Boy on Verandah of the Alfred Hospital, Prahran, 1918-1919

Summary

Photograph showing Gwendolen Luly in her nursing uniform standing with a boy on the verandah of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, circa 1918-1919.

Gwendolen Luly trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital towards the end of World War I and became Theatre Sister there in the 1920s. She later ran and owned her own Private Hospital, St Clements, on the corner of Southey and Byron Streets St Kilda South.

Description of Content

A woman in a nurse's uniform, standing with a boy on hospital verandah.