[Portrait of Miss Sybil Mary Lee]

This postcard features a photographic portrait of Miss Sybil Mary Lee (1872-1956) during the First World War. Miss Lee was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand. In 1915, she was granted six months leave of absence to visit England, but quickly found work visiting Maori soldiers at Wandsworth and Walton-on-Thames hospitals and stayed for two and a half years.

She would have commissioned this postcard possibly to send home to New Zealand. On the back of the postcard she has written: 'Yours sincerely, Sybil M. Lee, April. 1917'.