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Description: | 2 excellent ms diaries (110pp and 83pp respectively) covering her service as a nursing orderly, possibly with the Scottish Women's Hospital, in Salonika (November 1915 - June 1916), including details of her journey from the Bay of Biscay in a transport, her arrival at Salonika in a party of 32 women, the stark living and working conditions at the hospitals in Guvegueli (November 1915) and further back from the front (December 1915), her frustration at the inactivity they met and the apparent waste of highly-trained people doing manual labour tasks, the many air raids witnessed, the kindness shown to them by British officers and soldiers posted in Salonika, and her return journey home via Toulon and Paris on a French hospital ship (June 1916). The diaries are full of comments about the many people and places she saw, the entertainments she attended, and the doctors and nurses with whom she worked, including Dr Elsie Inglis and Dr Katherine McPhail.
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 1997-10-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Seymour, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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