Description
Object description
Interesting collection of documents relating mainly to her service as a VAD nurse in France and Italy during the First World War and as a driver with the London Volunteer Ambulance Service during the Second World War, comprising: 4 ms diaries (approx.160pp), 1915 - 1918, with brief entries relating to daily work and the casualties she tended at No 4 General Hospital, Versailles, No 10 General Hospital, Rouen (she describes the arrival of casualties during the first few days of the Somme offensive in July 1916), No 10 Stationary Hospital, St Omer, and various hospitals in Italy where she also cared for Austrian POWs; several ms letters (19pp) including two to her mother with references to her work and to poor staffing conditions at Rouen, one referring to casualties and medical work during the Anzac landings at Gallipoli, April 1915, and a postcard from Fuerstenberg POW Camp, Germany, 1916; miscellaneous official letters relating to her London Volunteer Ambulance Service duties, 1938 - 1940; miscellaneous printed matter relating to her Red Cross and LVAS service, including 7 Red Cross certificates; 46 photographs of unidentified BRCS/VAD personnel (mainly France 1914 - 1918 ?), of Studland Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps camp, pre-1914, and of herself in VAD uniform and in portrait; and other miscellaneous papers.
Content description
Interesting collection of documents relating mainly to her service as a VAD nurse in France and Italy during the First World War and as a driver with the London Volunteer Ambulance Service during the Second World War, comprising: 4 ms diaries (approx.160pp), 1915 - 1918, with brief entries relating to daily work and the casualties she tended at No 4 General Hospital, Versailles, No 10 General Hospital, Rouen (she describes the arrival of casualties during the first few days of the Somme offensive in July 1916), No 10 Stationary Hospital, St Omer, and various hospitals in Italy where she also cared for Austrian POWs; several ms letters (19pp) including two to her mother with references to her work and to poor staffing conditions at Rouen, one referring to casualties and medical work during the Anzac landings at Gallipoli, April 1915, and a postcard from Fuerstenberg POW Camp, Germany, 1916; miscellaneous official letters relating to her London Volunteer Ambulance Service duties, 1938 - 1940; miscellaneous printed matter relating to her Red Cross and LVAS service, including 7 Red Cross certificates; 46 photographs of unidentified BRCS/VAD personnel (mainly France 1914 - 1918 ?), of Studland Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps camp, pre-1914, and of herself in VAD uniform and in portrait; and other miscellaneous papers.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1991-08-08