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Description: | Documents of Julienne Hartley (nee Biliaud) relating mainly to her work as an ambulance driver for the French Army during and immediately after the First World War, comprising: various official permits regarding her driving duties on the Western Front during 1917 – 1919, official memoranda recording her good conduct and attention to duties as an ambulance driver (including confirmation that she was the first female driver to be employed by the French Army), permits allowing her to travel from France to England during 1918 – 1919 (presumably to visit her English fiancé), her French passport issued in November 1918, driving permit, UK Identity Book issued at Hove (1919), two photographs showing her in uniform and with her ambulance, and a typescript account in French (7pp) titled `Vers l’Aisne’ and dated September 1918, describing a journey by ambulance from Paris through the Aisne region, recording her impressions of the war-torn countryside and people met along the way; also a small number of documents of later date, including her UK National Registration Identity Card (1943), carbon-copy letter from Charles de Gaulle’s London office (June 1940) thanking her for responding to his appeal to rally to the Free French cause, membership cards for French organisations in the UK (post-45), and her International Driving Permit (1953).
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hartley, Julienne | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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