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Description: | Microfilm copy of five ms diaries and a collection of letters written during her service with the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Salonika (October 1916 - May 1919), detailing her journey to Greece and the other members of the SWH Group, the hospital in Salonika where she worked and accounts of the patients, recreational entertainments, Christmas celebrations and visitors including Admiral Thursby, Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, President Venizelos, Flora Sandes and the King of Greece, service with the SWH unit at Osrovo where she describes the appalling casualties of the battle of Kaimaktchalan, the repeated shelling, a visit to the Serb Refugee Camp in Salonika, the SWH unit at Vodena near the Monastir front, a Serb hospital run by Colonel Protch where educational and vocational activities were provided for convalescent soldiers, the arrival of Russo-Serbs after the Russian Revolution, a visit to the Struma front and the Hospital Temporaire No 1, and the perilous road conditions in Salonika; then her transfer to a SWH unit in Belgrade, June 1919 - January 1920, including details of civil disorder in the Balkans, the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital in Belgrade, the effects of Allied relief organisation including the American and British YMCA, and Dr Katherine MacPhail's Children's Hospital in Belgrade; and then her transfer to the post of assistant doctor at the United Free Church's Palestine Mission hospital in Tiberius, Palestine, January - May 1920, where she describes her journey through Bosnia Herzegovina, Greece and Egypt and comments on new European Jewish settlers in Palestine. The collection provides a full picture of her life and work and reflects her interest in religion and concern for her family.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McNeill, M L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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