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This work represents one of the many first-aid posts established in London Underground shelters during the Second World War. It shows Civil Defence workers’ combined duties of medical and Air Raid Precautions support. Doris Zinkeisen enjoyed a varied career as a painter and theatrical designer after training at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools. In the First World War, she served as a Voluntary Aid Attachment nurse and later she resumed nursing during the Blitz. Zinkeisen had declined offers of Official War Artist commissions and independently pursued her own subjects, producing works which she then sold to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee.

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

London

Title

St John Ambulance Brigade at Work in a London Underground Station

Date

1941

Medium

watercolour & gouache on paper

Accession number

FA01160

Work type

Watercolour

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Grahame Park Way, London, Greater London NW9 5LL England

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Artist or maker

Doris Clare Zinkeisen

1898–1991

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