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Object description
Copy negatives created from material lent to the museum relating to the service of Molly, Bardie and Betty Coleclough in the Women's Legion Mechanical Transport Section in Great Britain, Ireland and France between 1916 and 1920.
Subject coverage includes:
Scenes in the north east of England during Molly and Bardie Coleclough's posting to Acklington, near Morpeth, with the Cheshire Yeomanry.
Scenes in Ireland in 1918 and 1919 including the Royal Barracks in Dublin following their entry into 615 Company MT, Royal Army Service Corps. Also scenes in Killarney, Glengariff, Malahide, Newcastle and at Blarney Castle.
Scenes in France and Belgium in 1919 and 1920, including headquarters at Wimereux, camp at Hesdigneul, Arras, Ypres, Delville Wood, Paris, Valenciennes, camp at Duisans.
Motor vehicles used by the Women's Legion being driven individually or in convoy, being maintained or repaired, parked at barracks etc; camp life and accommodation including Nissen huts; leisure activities including sewing, sledging, polo, visits to coastal areas, and hockey; Chinese Labour Corps, German hospital patients being loaded onto trains, damaged buildings from First World War activity in Belgian towns, a German pillbox, Imperial War Graves Cemetery at Foreeville, Molly Coleclough with Lady Londonderry (founder of the Women's Legion), Betty Coleclough with a monkey in France.
