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Description: | 25 ms letters (70pp), August 1918 - May 1919, written home to her mother during service as a nurse with the QAIMNS in Salonika, containing mostly brief references to her living conditions, the local climate and terrain, her duties (including the treatment of 300 patients aided by only three orderlies) and the long hours worked, recreational activities including a hockey match and concert parties, Christmas and New Year celebrations, an epidemic of "Spanish Flu" during the last few months of the war, her hopes for demobilisation and fears of being sent to Russia or Serbia after the Armistice, her own brief hospitalisation with a septic leg, and her criticism of the use of Turkish prisoners as orderlies, together with a concert programme for "The Dixies" (The 2/9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry), plus a single ms letter (2pp) dated February 1941 in which she refers briefly to life on the Home Front in Britain.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 1998-03-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sutton, D | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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