Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Joanna Margaret Cruickshank NPG x86898

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Cruickshank was a military nurse and nursing administrator who founded the Royal Air Force Nursing Service in November 1918. She served as its first Matron-in-Chief until her retirement in 1930. Born in Murree, India (now Pakistan), she trained at Guy's Hospital, London, then returned to India to serve as Sister in the Lady Minto Nursing Association, which had been founded in 1906 to provide trained nurses and midwives in India. In 1917, she joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), the nursing branch of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.