Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sue Ryder; Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire NPG x31693

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Ryder, aged sixteen, immediately volunteered to be a nurse with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry when war broke out. She was accepted and posted to the Polish section of the Special Operations Executive. After the war, she volunteered to do relief work in Poland, and when United Nations relief groups pulled out in 1952, she stayed on. The following year, back in England, with only £1,000 from her personal savings, she opened her first home for 'forgotten friends of the allies'. Soon, her mother's old... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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