Farewell gathering for Quaker missionaries, Santai, Sichuan, 1945

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: LH-s05. The banner reads: 三台公誼會及各界人士歡送盧醫師華棣戴女士培德返國紀念1945年四月二十五日: 'Souvenir of the farewell gathering of Santai Friends and local people to commemorate the return home of Dr Lucy Harris [Lu Huaidi] and [Missionary] Dai Peide, 25 April 1945'. The photograph was taken at Tungchwan (Santai), near Chengdu, Sichuan (Chengtu, Szechwan). Lucy Harris graduated M.B. in 1898 from the London School of Medicine for Women, and worked at Clapham Maternity Hospital before taking up a position in Sichuan in 1902.