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Description: | Canadian officer served as nursing sister with Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in GB, Gallipoli, Malta and Salonika, 1915-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as nursing sister with Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in GB, Gallipoli, Malta and Salonika, 1915-1918: sailed aboard hospital ship to Gallipoli, Turkey, 10/1915; German shelling of ships; patients brought on lighters to hospital ship; types of wounds and illness treated; accommodation on ship; problem of lice; sailed with patients to Mudros harbour on island of Lemnos, Greece; patients; staffing of hospital ship; sailed to Malta via Salonika; on duty in military hospital in Valetta; accommodation in St George's Barracks; opinion of rations; story of voyage aboard Indian ship to Salonika; problem of seasickness; memories of Christmas in Salonika; weather conditions in Mediterranean and Salonika; accommodation in tents and problem of cold; sleeping arrangements; use of army blankets; treatment of casualties from Struma front; memories of Prince Alexander; story of French aeroplane dropping Christmas greetings to Canadians.
REEL 2 continues: further description of sick and wounded at Gallipoli; problem of lack of information about military situation; opinion of medical equipment and supplies; story of Zeppelin raid on hospital in Salonika and death of Canadian officer; living conditions; accommodation in huts; left Salonika, 10/1917; problem of injury to knee and treatment in Malta; attitude to use of leeches on knee to reduce swelling; returned to GB, 1917; description of duties at Lady Astor's hospital at Cliveden House, 2/1918; memories of Lady Astor; returned to No 4 Canadian General Hospital, Basingstoke; story of return to Canada, 7/1918. Post-war period in Canada. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rutherford, Mabel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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