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Description: | 35 long and detailed ms letters (144pp together with one complete ts transcript and one partially complete transcript) written to her family in the United Kingdom while she was serving as a voluntary nurse with the Friends' (Emergency) War Victims Relief Committee in France firstly at their convalescent home, Samoens, in October 1916 where she worked with Dr K S MacPhail tending French refugees and later at the FWVRC maternity hospital in Chalons-sur-Marne, November 1916 - March 1917; she gives full and lively accounts of her journey to Samoens via Paris, her duties and at times spartan living conditions, and throughout displays a keen enthusiasm for her work. Also photographs of Dr MacPhail, of the hospital at Chalons and of a Sunbeam ambulance.
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Catalogue date 1986-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barnett, C U | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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