This advertisement (the Times, Feb 28th,1922) asked for donations using Princess Mary (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965), as a reference.
In the First World War, Princess Mary performed charity work in support of servicemen and their families.
In 1918, when Mary reached her twenty-first birthday, she asked her father for a rather unusual gift–to be permitted to train and work as a paediatric nurse.
She was the first child of a Monarch to undertake the rigorous training at Great Ormond Street. The Princess impressed the matron (chief nurse) on the Alexandra Ward, where she was stationed, with her desire to be treated exactly the same as other trainees. No job was off-limits.
Mary’s public life later reflected her interest and understanding of nursing in hospitals.
After a nursing course at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which she began in June 1918, the Princess worked at the hospital two days a week until 1920.