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Description: | An interesting collection of papers (1915-1921) relating to her fundraising work during and after the First World War consisting of her correspondence and papers relating to her work for the Red Cross, including her identity papers as a section leader of the London VAD and the notice appointing her to the temporary rank of Honorary Commandant of the Red Cross; correspondence relating to her campaigns for St Dunstan's Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Hostels and various other appeals (March 1916 - June 1921); theatre programmes, play bills and tickets for events organised by or featuring Lady Martin Harvey and her husband, Sir John Martin Harvey (1915-1919); newspaper cuttings and printed publicity material relating to her campaigns, including her work for the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops and for a rest home for nurses 'broken' in the war in Bonchurch, Isle of Wight; lists of appeals with sums of money raised between 1917 and 1918; photographs of Lady Martin-Harvey in VAD uniform and with her husband, of Princess Beatrice, Governor of the Isle of Wight opening the home for nurses at Bonchurch in 1920 and of the British Red Cross Society Ambulance named after Lady Martin-Harvey; and a British passport with photograph and stamps dating from several visits to France to inspect hospitals on behalf of the Red Cross (January - May 1916) .
Cataloguer AAM
Catalogue date 2000-03-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Martin-Harvey, Nellie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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