The nursing staff at Egginton Hall Hospital in the heart of Derbyshire, an 'up-to-date' Red Cross hospital in Derbyshire, established by Mrs Arthur Dugdale at the outbreak of the First World War. A special point was made of training all the Red Cross probationers in practical and theoretical nursing. Pictured are, back row - Miss R. Baxter (St. Thomas's Hospital), Miss M. Hudson (Derbyshire Royal Infirmary), Miss B. M. Waterman (Guy's Hospital), Mrs. Dugdale, Miss McGregor, Miss McCalder, Miss P. Porter, Miss G. Carter, Mrs Sherston, Miss M. Handcock and in front, Miss E. Smith and Mrs G. Winterbottom.