QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITAL, SIDCUP c.1920s
QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITAL, SIDCUP c.1920s

Mary Emma Sercombe's daughter Norah Tree (1901-1991) met Charles Pankhurst (1899-1946) when they both worked at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Norah was there briefly as a ward orderly, but Charles made a career in nursing. In this photograph he is standing fourth from the left, dressed in white, in the back row. Queen Mary's was at Frognal House and, for a period from 1917, was where Dr Harold Gillies pioneered new techniques in plastic surgery to make facial repairs to men drastically wounded during the Great War.

QUEEN MARY'S HOSPITAL, SIDCUP c.1920s

Mary Emma Sercombe's daughter Norah Tree (1901-1991) met Charles Pankhurst (1899-1946) when they both worked at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. Norah was there briefly as a ward orderly, but Charles made a career in nursing. In this photograph he is standing fourth from the left, dressed in white, in the back row. Queen Mary's was at Frognal House and, for a period from 1917, was where Dr Harold Gillies pioneered new techniques in plastic surgery to make facial repairs to men drastically wounded during the Great War.