Statue of Mary Seacole
This photograph shows a statue commemorating Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse who tended to those wounded on the battlefield of the Crimean War.
Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805. She moved to London for a year in 1821, and later lived in London for prolonged periods for the remainder of her life, until her death in 1881.
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Text etched in front of the statue says:
Mary…