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Description: | British civilian nurse and commandant with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in GB, 1913-1919
REEL 1 Recollections of period Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse and commandant in GB, 1913-1919: family reasons for joining Red Cross; field day with Territorial Army, 1913; establishment of new Red Cross detachment Sussex 66; social life and family background.
REEL 2 Continues: outbreak of war 1914; establishment of house in Ditchling, Sussex as auxiliary hospital; arrival of first patients and enlargement of hospital; difficulties of coping with convalescents; recruiting hospital staff.
REEL 3 Continues: routine daily duties and financial arrangements at hospital; nature of patients' injuries; talking to patients' visitors; relationship with professional nurses; importance of voluntary workers.
REEL 4 Continues: arrival of first patients; routine for VADs; her duties as commandant; various types of Red Cross uniform; patients' attitudes to the war.
REEL 5 Continues: lack of social life for VAD members; commitment to hospital work; confidence in the outcome of the war; closure of hospital; work at YWCA in London; receiving decorations from King George V 1919.
REEL 6 Continues: reasons for rapid closure of hospital; recollections of a patient suffering from shell-shock; ignoring certain regulations unpopular with patients and VAD members. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | David, Eleanor Millicent | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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