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Description: | Ms journal, with ts transcript (36pp), covering her service as a VAD at No 4 British General Hospital, Camiers, near Etaples, March 1917 - August 1918, describing her duties on the wards, the discomforts of life under canvas and outings with other VADs, as well as expressing her sadness at the suffering and deaths that she witnessed. Also, 20 ms letters from E Goulden, a private in the 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (12th Division) in France, June 1914 - January 1916, describing his first impressions of life in the trenches and the routine of trench warfare including a diversionary action which he took part in during the Battle of Loos, and with interesting references to civilian conditions in France and to the comfort of his religious faith; and 18 ms letters from other `Tommies', mostly in France, May - October 1915, thanking her for letters and parcels.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1979-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kenyon, K M R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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