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Description: | British civilian nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in GB, 1914-1919
REEL 1 Background in GB, 1896-1914: family; education. Aspects of joining VAD and training, 1914: decision to join VAD; training at Nottingham General Hospital; learning to make hospital bed.
REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of period as VAD at 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln, 1915: attitude of parents towards her work as VAD; daily routine; night duty; condition of patients on arrival and initial treatment; types of wounds; visiting regulations.
REEL 3 Continues: contact with family; VAD's accommodation; rules and regulations; food rations; pay; lack of provision for her vegetarian diet; washing soiled bed linen.
REEL 4 Continues: Recollections of period as VAD at Knutsford Red Cross Hospital, 1919-1921: night duty; organisation of YMCA canteen; patients with dysentery and Malaria; story of breaking leg. Recollections of period as VAD at 2nd Southern Hospital, Birmingham, 1918-1919: patients with long term illness/injury; size of hospital; duties caring for patients; patients' morale; entertainment for patients.
REEL 5 Continues: visits by patients' families; story of shell-shocked sergeant; work of husband as Army Chaplain; shortage of equipment; visiting Buckingham Palace to receive medals. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Edgley, Caroline Maud | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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