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Object description
A comprehensive ts summary (12pp) written in 1977 of voluntary work carried out in the village of Dean, North Bedfordshire, during the Second World War, describing the arrival of evacuees and the problems associated with them, and her work as Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) Organiser for Bedford Rural District Council and the village's Assistant Billeting Officer; together with a photocopied ms account (31pp, plus 33pp ts transcription and microfilm copy) of her experiences as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in Rouen, France, 1915 - 1919, where she was Commandant of No 26 Bedfordshire VAD Unit, with good details of how they lived, discipline, the unfortunate necesity for a maternity block for the WAACs, the strain under which untrained nurses sometimes worked, the good morale of the patients, her suffering with measles, transferring to a hostel for nurse in transit, also in Rouen (late 1917), descriptions of the hospital layout, her duties as housekeeper and transit sister. Also on microfilm are copies of two scrapbooks compiled by Mrs G Mackay Brown (née Miss C L F Dalton) including photographs of her, No 8 General Base Hospital, Rouen, staff, patients, sisters' transport hostel, views of Rouen, and 26 Bedfordshire VAD Unit.
Content description
A comprehensive ts summary (12pp) written in 1977 of voluntary work carried out in the village of Dean, North Bedfordshire, during the Second World War, describing the arrival of evacuees and the problems associated with them, and her work as Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) Organiser for Bedford Rural District Council and the village's Assistant Billeting Officer; together with a photocopied ms account (31pp, plus 33pp ts transcription and microfilm copy) of her experiences as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) in Rouen, France, 1915 - 1919, where she was Commandant of No 26 Bedfordshire VAD Unit, with good details of how they lived, discipline, the unfortunate necesity for a maternity block for the WAACs, the strain under which untrained nurses sometimes worked, the good morale of the patients, her suffering with measles, transferring to a hostel for nurse in transit, also in Rouen (late 1917), descriptions of the hospital layout, her duties as housekeeper and transit sister. Also on microfilm are copies of two scrapbooks compiled by Mrs G Mackay Brown (née Miss C L F Dalton) including photographs of her, No 8 General Base Hospital, Rouen, staff, patients, sisters' transport hostel, views of Rouen, and 26 Bedfordshire VAD Unit.
History note
Cataloguer CP
History note
Catalogue date 1977-09