Is that lamp going out? : to the heroic memory of Florence Nightingale / by the author of Where's master].

Date:
[1911?]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Is that lamp going out? : to the heroic memory of Florence Nightingale / by the author of Where's master]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    34/56 page 30
    claimed and I had to fight for my living? I’m not proud of being a Crimean veteran—it was easy to be brave in those hours of splendid frenzy—but I am proud that after fifty years of battle, fifty years, mind you, not one glorious day at Alma, I owe no man anything, I’ve clean hands in a dirty world. My uniform is stained and ragged, but I’ve kept my honour un- tarnished, and I’ve never turned my back on the enemy. For the peace and comfort
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3