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Description: | British civilian volunteer with Red Cross Chester Division in GB, 1912-1916; served as medical orderly with 29th Stationary Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps in Salonika, Greece and Italy, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian living in Chester, 1905-1914: background to move from Manchester and career with flour mill; role of Lady Mackinnon in formation of Chester Detachment, Red Cross, 1912; approach and outbreak of war, 4/8/1914. Recollections of voluntary service with Chester Detachment, Red Cross, 1914-1916: necessity for first aid and nursing training; role unloading trains of wounded; inadequacy of food allowance and seeking donations of food from shopkeepers; donations of stretchers from friends; opening of Richmond House Hospital, 10/1914; administrative arrangements.
REEL 2 Continues: meeting train of wounded and Belgian refugees at Chester station; cooperation of employer in allowing voluntary work; administrative arrangements prior to imminent arrival of ambulance trains; practising stretcher drill; importance of telephone skills; rumours of possibility of German landings at Liverpool; size of detachment and effects of recruitment; story illustrating state of wounded on arrival and effects on personal morale; disposal of amputated limbs. Aspects of period as orderly with 29th Stationary Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps in Salonika, Greece and Italy, 1916-1919: effects of loss of vision on patients; playing cards.
REEL 3 Continues: writing letters for patients; question of labelling of wounded; role in notification and assistance of relatives of wounded; pay book wills; story of ship sinking and rescue in Adriatic, 1917; background to enlistment, 3/1916; prior training at Aldershot, 1916; accelerated posting overseas due to Red Cross training; attack of malaria and effects of treatment.
REEL 4 Continues: Recollections of voluntary service with Chester Detachment, Red Cross, 1914-1916: division of patients between hospitals on arrival at Chester station; ignoring blackout regulations for ambulances; method of loading ambulances and importance of testing stretchers; story of parrot; bathing patients as voluntary orderly in hospital; method of getting patients out of baths; treatment of buttock wounds. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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