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Description: | Ms notebook (137pp) kept during her service as a VAD at Bath War Hospital, November 1916 - June 1917, and Windlesham Court Military Hospital, Surrey, July - September 1917, containing interesting character sketches of the soldiers whom she cared for and recounting the stories they had told her of how they were wounded or had contracted illness, day to day life at the hospital, the sudden chaos which followed the arrival of a convoy of wounded soldiers, and the various amusing and sad incidents which occurred on the ward. Together with an excellent ms account (7pp) of Christmas Day 1916 at Bath War Hospital, and an ms transcription (5pp) of two letters from Max Temple Thomson, Miss Ruthven Smith's fiance, the first dated 2 April 1916 and addressed from Newton Rectory, Bury St Edmunds, describing a Zeppelin raid, the resulting casualties and damage and the work of German agents in guiding the Zeppelins; the second dated 22 April 1918 and bemoaning the fact that he has joined No 5 Squadron RAF at Hastings, East Sussex.
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Catalogue date 2005-07-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ruthven Smith, G L | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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