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Description: | A series of 26 ms diaries, with volumes 1 - 6 covering her travels in the Near and Middle East, Abyssinia (where her husband was employed as the British Consul at Addis Ababa), 1910 - 1912; volumes 7 - 8 describing her service as a nursing superintendent on the British Red Cross Mission to Turkey, November 1912 - April 1913, which under the directorship of her husband ran a hospital in Constantinople to care for Turkish soldiers wounded in the Balkan War and for the victims of a cholera epidemic; volumes 9 - 10 covering August - December 1913 when she accompanied her husband to Albania, describing the serious internal and external problems of the International Frontier Commission to Albania, of which her husband was the British delegate and President, in the aftermath of the Balkan War; volumes 11 - 13 providing a detailed record of her service in France, December 1914 - September 1915 (except for February), when she was "directrice" of the Anglo-Ethiopian Red Cross Hospital situated at Frevent up to May, then at St Valery-sur-Somme, which cared for wounded and sick French soldiers, and revealing her endless difficulties with the voluntary staff and the grave mismanagement of the French army medical services; volumes 14 - 16 recording her service as the matron in charge of a hospital at Mudros West on the island of Lemnos, April 1916 - July 1917, caring exclusively for the Royal Naval Division until they left for France in May 1916 and then for the British garrison on the island, and keeping in touch with war news and gossip through regular social contact with senior Army and Naval officers; volumes 17 - 22 covering her service in a similar capacity on another, less accessible Eastern Mediterranean island, Thasos, July 1917 - December 1918, where she set up a hospital for the officers and men of the naval air wing on the island; volumes 22 (later entries) - 26 concerning her employment on graves registration duties at the sites of former prisoner of war camps in Turkey, January 1919 - December 1920, including the consolidation of military cemeteries, and her efforts to arrange the erection of a memorial to her husband, killed at Gallipoli; together with 9 ms letters to her mother, various other correspondence and papers, including an interesting letter written by her husband shortly before he was killed, and a small collection of press cuttings and photographs, some of the items relating to her nursing work but the majority to her husband Lieutenant Colonel C H M Doughty-Wylie's part in the landings at Cape Helles, Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, for which he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1979-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Doughty-Wylie, L O | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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