Mrs Albert Broom and her daughter Winifred at Easter Church Parade, Hyde Park Barracks, 1915

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1915.

Christina Broom (known professionally as Mrs Albert Broom) is thought to have been the first woman press photographer. With her daughter Winifred Broom as her assistant, she developed a particularly close relationship with the military and between 1904 and 1939 she was photographer to the Household Brigade.