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Description: | British nurse served with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service aboard Hospital Ship Oxfordshire in Dardanelles, 1915 and in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Background in London, GB: pre-war training as nurse at St George's Hospital, London: reaction to outbreak of war, 8/1914; joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service and volunteered to serve on hospital ship. Aspects of period as nurse with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service aboard Hospital Ship Oxfordshire in Dardanelles, 1915: description of ship; medical staff; opinion of VADs; accommodation; food; daily routine and duties; recreational activities; condition of patients and treatment; evacuation of wounded from Gallipoli; protection of Hospital Ship; posted to Alexandria, Egypt; volunteered for service in Mesopotamia. Aspects of period as nurse with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service in Mesopotamia, 1916-1918: description of journey to Basra; problem of heat and sun stroke; memory of drinking warm Nestle's milk; treatment for sun stroke; attitude to role as nurse; morale of troops; question of following progress of war; reason for volunteering for service in Mesopotamia and Persia; pay; recreational activities; memories of various friends; question of home leave and holidays; communication with home; story of departure from GB; attitude to serving in war zone; various memories of Amara, Kut and Baghdad; use of river boats for transport and wounded; proximity of field hospitals to front line; climate; accommodation in bamboo huts; opinion of food.
REEL 2 Continues: social life and recreational activities; medical supplies; uniform; climate; problem of jackals in desert; orderly escort; treatment of Persian women in hospital; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/11/1918; question of remaining as nurse with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service; story of marriage in India, 1921. Aspects of post-war life in India. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stovold, Jan R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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