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Description: | 24 ms letters (73pp), 2 Christmas cards and 2 postcards written to Miss John during her service as a Sister-in-Charge at St John’s Ambulance Brigade Hospital, Staples December 1914 – March 1919, from various soldiers and their loved ones thanking her for her care during their hospital treatment, including descriptions of their voyage to Britain for further treatment, the care they received in British hospitals and praise for the nurses. Together with one letter of thanks from all of her patients (1p); 7 photographs including group photographs of patients with their nurses; 4 printed ts orders regarding air raid precautions, patients kits and reusing bandages; one grant of leave form; two dinner menus signed by the attendees; 9 programmes for sports events and concerts and a short story, a poem for a dead soldier and a page of sketches all by unknown authors.
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | John, Mary Gladys | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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