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Description: | British civilian nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in France, 1915-1919
REEL 1 Recollections of period in Germany, pre-1914: outbreak of war, 1914; escape to Austria; return to Dresden; arranging return to GB; anti-British feeling in Germany; train journey; meeting wives of British prisoners; suicide attempt of one wife; passing through Customs; conditions in hotel at Rotterdam. Aspects of period in GB, 1914: arrival in GB; preparations for war in GB and Germany.
REEL 2 Continues: nursing work; volunteering to go to France. Recollections of period as VAD nurse, Camiers, France, 1915-1919: preparing hospital for use; tented accommodation; daily routine; relations between VADs and army nurses; opinion of Matron; attitude towards Colonel; soldiers reluctance to talk about experiences; attitude of VADs towards work; lice; condition of patients on arrival; shell shock cases; West Africans in hospital.
REEL 3 Continues: entertainment; social life; conditions during winter of 1915/1916; nurses clubs; influenza epidemic, 1918; reaction to deaths of soldiers on Armistice Day; increase in freedom for VADs after Armistice; discipline; preparing to evacuate due to German advance, 1916; generosity of public during war; decision not to talk about work when off duty.
REEL 4 Continues: memories of nursing war artist, Adrian Hall; taking patients to nurses' club; visiting village; air raid; lack of air raid precautions. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | McCann, Ethel Dorothy | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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