Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2.  p 452

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 452
Date 1917
Page number 452
Publisher Unknown
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A GALLANT MEDICAL OFFICER.

[photo, portrait] The late Capt. F. MIILLER JOHNSON, Divisional Sanitary Officer, attached to the 6th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, was well known in Reading, being grandson of the late Mr. Joseph Haddon Johnston [sic], of the Hollies, London Road. Shortly before he met his death in Gallipoli, the fragment of a shell went right through the leaf of a notebook he was holding.

FACTORY GIRLS & WOUNDED SOLDIERS.

[photo, group, exterior] The girls at Messrs. Huntley and Palmers' Biscuit Factory entertaining the brave lads on the Factory Recreation Ground. They have subscribed voluntarily over £293 up to the end of 1916 in order that the soldiers might have little extra in the way of dainties and comforts.

HOSPITAL NURSES TAKE RECREATION ON THE RIVER.

[photo, group, exterior] After their arduous labours in tending the wounded our nurses in the War Hospitals need a little recreation, and here they are seen about to start up river in one of Maynard's well-appointed launches. [Photo by May.]