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Description: | Photocopied extracts from letters and a diary recording her service as a nurse with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the United Kingdom and France, September 1916 - September 1917, including details of her journey across the Atlantic to England (September 1916) and mentioning black out precautions onboard ship, conditions in London where she describes the war wounded in Roehampton Hospital, joining No 3 New Zealand Hospital in Codford (October 1916), the rigours of army training, the British winter, cases of pneumonia and the inadequate heating and accommodation, embarkation for the New Zealand No 1 Stationary Hospital in Amiens (January 1917) where she describes her 'aristocratic patients' and the difficulties of working with the British, before moving to Hazebrouck (June 1917) where she recalls the consequences of a New Zealand attack, German air raids on the hospital, an intake of French civilians who had been gassed at Armentieres, and then the evacuation of the hospital (31 July 1917) to St Omer before he return to the UK on leave (August 1917).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Grey, E P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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