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Object description
British nurse served with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in GB, Belgium and France, 1912-1919
Content description
REEL 1 Aspects of period as nurse with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in GB, 1912-1914: educational background prior to joining First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1912; attending summer camps; activities with organisation; weekly drills; provision of ambulances; attitude towards outbreak of First World War; nursing training; attitude towards superiors.
REEL 2 Continues: expectations of war; arrival of Belgian refugees in GB; effects of war on family; attitude of family towards her service with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Recollections of period as nurse with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in Belgium and France, 1914-1919: move to Belgium, 10/1914; description of Lamarck Hospital, Belgium; treatment of typhoid cases.
REEL 3 Continues: move to White Fathers' Mission Hospital in France, 1916; standard of nursing in France; character of patients; cupping and leech treatments; opinion of doctors; evacuation of hospital during German offensive, 3/1918; move to dressing station at Royal Flying Corps/RAF Marquise Aerodrome, France, 1918.
REEL 4 Continues: German air raids, 9/1918; air raid shelter; purpose of aerodrome; patients; off duty activities; degree of knowledge of war's progress; attitude of patients towards war; leave; question of First Aid Nursing Yeomanry personnel reputation; uniform worn; pay; rations; accommodation; description of steam bath at Marquise Aerodrome, France.
REEL 5 Continues: shortages of supplies; patients' clothing; question of French troops wearing caps; treatment of female civilian; arrival of patients by ambulance; role of First Aid Nursing Yeomanry personnel; condition of patients on arrival; recreational activities for patients; relations between nursing staff and patients; degree of contact with German prisoners of war; lack of shell shock cases; lack of patient visitors.
REEL 6 Continues: attitude towards night duty; visits by padres; living conditions during winter, 1916-1917; presence of French colonial troops; victory celebrations, 11/1918; leaving First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1919; work with Imperial War Graves Commission in France, 1919.