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Description: | Photograph album containing 20 black and white photographic prints, plus 21 loose prints relating to Miss Elizabeth Cotton's service in the Voluntary Aid Detachment and also with the YMCA, during the First World War.
The photograph album comprises views of No.2 General Hospital, Quai d'Escale, Le Havre, showing troopships, hospital ships, ambulances, YMCA huts and post-war locations on battlefields in northern France and Flanders. The loose photographs show YMCA huts at unknown locations, destruction on the battlefields, including Bernafay Wood on the Somme, graves and the work of Graves Registration Units. There are also loose photographic postcards showing British and French cemeteries at Carnoy, Meaulte, Froissy, Becordel, Etinehem, the Italian cemetery at Soupir and the ruins of Locre church. Also included in the collection are three books of postcards showing Albert (Copyright R Lelong), Ypres (Copyright Antony d'Ypres) and Montauban (Copyright Adrian Duclerq), before and after the First World War. Finally, there is a copy of "The Goodbye Book of the Quai d'Escale" (1918) and certificates presented to Miss Cotton by the YMCA and the British Red Cross Society, and her elementary certificate of proficiency in shorthand.
Grey card-covered photograph album (dimensions: H 170mm x W 220mm) containing 20 prints glued onto album pages. Also 21 loose photographic prints of varying sizes, some with handwritten information on the reverse, 22 loose photographic postcards, two commercially produced books of photo-postcards (dimensions: H 90mm x W 150mm) one with a green cover (Ypres) and one orange covered (Montauban). Commemorative book: The Goodbye Book of the Quai d'Escale (dimensions: H 280mm x W 220mm) and three certificates. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Voluntary Aid Detachment Western Front 1914-1918 British Army 1914-1918 Transport Casualties YMCA Medical Services | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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