Photograph: Liberation of Europe First Women to land in France.Personnel of Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Military Nursing Service were the first women to arrive on the Normandy beachhead. On June 13th, seven days after the initial landings of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, Lt Col Helm, of Colchester arrived with two Sisters, their purpose was the setting up of a General hospital to house 600 patients, and with the assistance of Pioneers and the R.A.M.C the hospital was quickly established and is now functioning well.Shows Sister unpacking stores. Included in the pictures are Sister Ridgers, Mackay Causon and Bjorkman.Picture issued July 1944.British Official Photograph No. B 5805. XC.War Office Photograph - Crown Copyright Reserved.One of 37 British Official photographs, nd.Mounted on card with original associated typescript captions.Covering aspects of the preparations for and liberation of North West Europe, 1944-1945, including D-Day, 1944, and the Rhine Crossings, 1945.