Watercolour of the gardens of Tresco, Isles of Scilly, by Cicely Francis Dorrien-Smith (1882-1915). Born at Tresco, Miss Dorrien-Smith later joined the Empire Force during World War I as a voluntary worker running canteens for troops in France, where she contracted measles leading to bronchitis and pneumonia. Her death was recorded on 18th April 1915 at the 10th Base Hospital in Rouen. She is buried in St Nicholas' graveyard on Tresco.
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