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23rd December 1939: A group of Indian women who have volunteered to man the auxiliary ambulance station in Augustus Street, St Pancras, London, undergoing a gas mask drill at the station. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

23rd December 1939:  A group of Indian women who have volunteered to man the auxiliary ambulance station in Augustus Street, St Pancras, London, undergoing a gas mask drill at the station.  (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)