Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elsie Knocker; Mairi Chisholm NPG x194117

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Chisholm joined the Women's Emergency Corps in 1914 with her friend Elsie Knocker. Chisholm was just eighteen and volunteered as a dispatch rider. Both women were recommended for the Flying Ambulance Corps which was formed to move the wounded from the front-line to field hospitals. Realising that many lives could potentially be saved if they administered basic first-aid before transporting the wounded, Chisholm and Knocker set up medical outposts near the front line. Between 1915 and 1917 they were reported to have treated and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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