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Description: | British nurse served with Red Cross and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service in GB, 1915; served aboard hospital ship Warilda in Mediterranean and at Camp 29 in Salonika, Greece, 1916-1918; served with National Army Canteen Board in Surrey, GB, 1919
REEL 1 Background in GB, 1890-1914: lack of occupations for wealthy women; visits to Europe; reaction to outbreak of war; joining Red Cross; attitude of upper class to 'trained' nurses.
REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of period as nurse with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, GB, 1915: duties as probationer at hospital in Barnstaple; attitude towards work; hours worked; rules on women dealing with male patients; recruitment of 'society' ladies as army nurses.
REEL 3 Continues: move to Garrison Hospital, Colchester; accommodation; promotion to army sister; routine on arrival of wounded soldiers from France; difficult relations with female colleague; relationship with patients.
REEL 4 Continues: knowledge of war's progress; army regulations in hospital; parent's attitude towards her work; attitude towards Germans; reaction to learning of brother's death; rationing; availability of medical equipment and supplies.
REEL 5 Continues: development of interest in spiritualism and the occult.
REEL 6 Continues: memories of patient, Barnstaple. Recollections of period with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service aboard hospital ship Warilda and in Salonika, Greece, 1916-1918: selection for service abroad; parents attitude towards overseas service; posting to hospital ship Warilda, Mediterranean.
REEL 7 Continues: leave in Alexandria; relations between nurses and officers on ship; lack of social life; move to Salonika; patients' medical problems.
REEL 8 Continues: patient's medical problems; conditions; psychological condition of soldiers; food rations; lack of communication with family GB; attempts to improve patients' morale.
REEL 9 Continues: relations with difficult patients; duties aboard Warilda; returning to GB with casualties; collecting and treating casualties from Le Havre.
REEL 10 Continues: trench foot and treatment; collecting patients from Dublin, Ireland; relations with Irish people; return to Salonika; visit to Stavros.
REEL 11 Continues: move from hospital ship to Camp 29, Salonika; description of Salonika; accommodation; living conditions; clothing; food rations.
REEL 12 Continues: living conditions; coping with weather conditions; working hours; social life; relations between men and women; prostitutes operating in area; account of destruction of Salonika by fire.
REEL 14 Continues: account of destruction of Salonika by fire; attitude of soldiers towards conditions at Salonika; morale of troops; meeting Alexander, Prince Regent of Serbia; guarding of nurses by Serbian troops.
REEL 14 Continues: relations with Serbian soldiers; lavatory facilities; attitude towards period nursing; request to return to GB; illness; leaving army; decision to join the Navy.
REEL 15 Continues: applying to join Royal Navy. Recollections of period with Army Canteen Inspection Board, Surrey, 1919: duties inspecting canteens at Canadian Army Camps, Epsom; organising food for victory marches in London.
REEL 16 Continues: inspecting canteens for Guards. Reflections on brief period in Royal Navy and end of war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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