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Description: | Commonplace book compiled while serving at Exeter and Honiton Temporary VAD Hospitals, October 1914 - October 1915, and containing the signatures of many of her soldier patients, with verses inscribed by them and, sometimes, brief details of the circumstances in which they were wounded (including an 8pp account by a Corporal in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (1st Division) of his service on the Western Front, August - December 1914); 5 postcards from Captain J M Rose-Troup in France and then Germany where he was a prisoner of war, 1914 - 1916; 6 ms letters from Flight Commander A F Bettington RN in the Eastern Mediterranean and at the RN Air Station Eastchurch, 1915 - 1917; 2 ms letters from Lieutenant Commander H I M L Scott RN in HMS ORIANA describing the rescue of survivors from the torpedoed mail steamship GALWAY CASTLE in September 1918; several other postcards to and from Miss Dunning; and an invitation for the visit of King George V to the Exeter VAD hospitals in 1915.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1983-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Dunning, D S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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