Winners of the Minister of Health's silver cup for the British National Hospital Service Reserve. Photograph, 195-.

Thirteen people, most of them wearing helmets bearing lettering "N.H.S.R." One wears a helmet inscribed M.O. (Medical Officer). Assumed to represent the award winners referred to in the British journal of nursing, loc. cit.

"The purpose of the N.H.S.R. is to recruit, train and organise in peacetime a Reserve of men and women qualified in first aid and home nursing, who would in time of war not only provide the additional staff required for the greatly expanded hospital service, but would also man some 2,000 Mobile First Aid Units and some 800 static first-aid posts at hospitals. Its peacetime target is 100,000 and by the end of last year nearly 35,000 members had been recruited."--British journal of nursing, loc. cit.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1950 and 1959]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12.7 x 24.7 cm

Verso of mount bears names inscribed in pencil

'N.H.S.R. Challenge Cup. National Competition this Year', British journal of nursing, March 1954, p. 30 ("A National Competition is being organised this year for the Minister of Health's Silver Challenge Cup for the most efficient Mobile First Aid Unit in the National Hospital Service Reserve. Last year, when the competition started, it was confined to the four Metropolitan Hospital Regions. The holders are the Enfield Hospital Group Team. It is expected that between 200 and 300 teams will take part. "

Wellcome Collection 668608i