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Patricia Frances Mary Fielden Nemon-Stuart (née Villiers-Stuart); Sir Ernst Chain; Oscar Nemon; Anna ('Nura') Sacharina

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Patricia Frances Mary Fielden Nemon-Stuart (née Villiers-Stuart); Sir Ernst Chain; Oscar Nemon; Anna ('Nura') Sacharina

by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1944
Bequeathed by the estate of Francis Goodman, 1989
Photographs Collection
NPG x195041

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  • Francis Goodman (1913-1989), Photographer. Artist of 1390 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.

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Photographed in the garden of the Nemons' rented home at West View, Boars Hill, Oxford with a bust of Chain by Nemon in the centre of the group. Oscar Nemon's wife, Patricia had been critically ill in hospital and upon discovering that a distant acquaintance (Chain) was working on penicillin, Nemon rushed to his home, in despair. Penicillin was still at the laboratory stage, but Chain agreed to help Nemon's wife. Nemon's diary recalls: 'He brought the penicillin in its test-tube straight from the laboratory [...] The treatment was carried out in the greatest secrecy, and it saved her life.'

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London is hit by the V1 Flying Bomb. This weapon, developed by the German Luftwaffe and colloquially known as the 'Buzz Bomb', or 'Doodlebug', was the first guided missile and was used for attacks on targets in England and Belgium.

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Laurence Olivier's epic film version of Henry V is released. Olivier directed and starred in the film, which was partly funded by the British government in recognition of its morale-boosting patriotic appeal. The cast included service men as Henry's army.

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France is liberated from German-occupation following the Battle for Normandy. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied-France led by Field Marshall Montgomery, was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million soldiers crossing the channel from England to France. Troops landed on the 6th June (D-Day), and Paris was liberated in late August.

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