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Description: | A privately printed ts memoir (143pp), written in 1973, entitled ‘Ninety Years Young’, 1882 - 1966, beginning with an account of her privileged upbringing in the South East of England before going on to share her experiences serving with the YMCA during the First World War, remembering her embarkation to France (April 1915), her duties working in a canteen at Le Havre, her impressions of the soldiers as well as civilians she met, the entertainments she organised, her involvement in setting up an orchestra, the air raids and long hours of work she endured until her transfer to another YMCA hut at Vimy Ridge on the announcement of the Armistice (November 1918), also detailing her journey thereafter to India in order to continue her work with the YMCA, from 1921 to the end of the Second World War, with references to her active involvement with the Red Cross and at a woman’s camp at Bangalore but focusing how she spent her leave exploring the Far East, with particular attention to her travels in Burma, returning to England 40 years later before ending with her retiring to Malta, accompanied by the ms autograph book (105pp) she kept as a souvenir throughout her service, signed by many of the soldiers she met, including poems and drawings, also with a photograph of her in uniform.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Young Men's Christian Association | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Goldsmith, S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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