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Description: | Ms account (13pp) of her experiences with the Scottish Women's Hospitals at Kragujevatz in Serbia and during their retreat across country (October 1915), providing details of the unit's route and the work they undertook at each stage of their journey travelling through Bruc, Prisend, the Montengran Mountains and Albanian Alps and reaching the Port of Medina on the Adriatic in December 1915, while describing the scarcity and high price of food, wounded men encountered on the journey, the difficulties experienced by a section of the Serbian Army attempting to make the same journey, and the plight of Serbian schoolboys, many of whom died in the mountains; together with postcards and photographs showing the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit, and a pamphlet which includes an article concerning her experiences in Serbia.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-15 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bertram, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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