In The Millbank Hospital During An Air Raid : Patients Being Taken To The Shelter,...

Creator: Macdonald, Frances (1914-2002) Patients lay on trollies and sit in wheel chairs while waiting to be taken to an air raid shelter by nurses and hospital staff, Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, London, 1940. A British army soldier is on the left. Frances Macdonald trained at the Royal College of Art and was one of the longest-serving official war artists of the Second World War. This commissioned work In the Millbank Hospital During An Air Raid was not initially accepted for display by the War Artists Advisory Committee due to the portrayal of fear and thus its perceived effect on morale.