British nurses leave in RAF flying boats to turn wounded German sailors at Gibraltar. For British voluntary aid department nurses took off from Calshot, Southampton Water, into Royal Air Force flying boats for Gibraltar to attend German sailors wounded when the 'Deutschland's' was bombed. The nurses are M R Ikin of Aldershot, Sister G E Morgan Tidworth, Sister N K Smyth , of Millbank, London, and Sister M Ellis of the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley. This is the first time in the history of the military embarkation at Southampton that any passengers had been embarked for service by air. Photo shows, Sister N K Smyth,M Ellis, Sister G E Morgan and M R Ikin on the embarkation peer as they left Calshot. 2 June 1937