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Description: | Three ms diaries for September 1914 - January 1915 covering her service as a driver with Dr Munro's Ambulance Unit in Belgium, collecting wounded Belgian soldiers from the front line by day and night until November 1914 and then, in company with Miss Mairi Chisholm, manning an advanced dressing post at Pervyse where, although only a few hundred yards behind the trenches, refreshments as well as medical attention, including the immediate treatment of shell shock, were provided. With the diaries are a number of brief ts memoirs, a folder of presscuttings (1914 - 1964), an album containing original drawings by several prominent artists and signatures of distinguished visitors to the post, and some miscellaneous documents and photocopies, mostly relating to the two ladies' work in the so-called 'Cellar House' at Pervyse (Pervijze), which was not finally evacuated till early 1918, and all reflecting the Baroness's deep affection for all ranks of the Belgian Army, together with a very few official items concerning her service in the WAAF during the Second World War.
Cataloguer CP | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Chisholm Belgian Army Royal Air Force Mairi Lambert Gooden Second World War 1939-1945 Women's Auxiliary Air Force Dr Munro's Ambulance Unit Western Front First World War Battles of Ypres 1914 German Invasion 1914 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | de T'Serclaes (Baroness) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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