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Description: | Short ms account (5pp) written retrospectively, describing her service as a VAD at a Red Cross hospital in Essex during the First World War (no exact dates noted); together with 18 ms letters (59pp) written to her from an acquaintance, Sir Frederick Hobday, who served during the war as the Officer Commanding No 22 Veterinary Hospital in France and then Italy, 2 September 1915 - 24 March 1934, touching on his duties and his impressions of modern warfare but mainly discussing their mutual friends, the leisure activities he took an active part in organising for his men in order to keep up morale, his demobilisation (May 1919) and then his being knighted in January 1933; accompanied by 17 letters (50pp) sent to her from another friend N Thornhill serving with the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards (2nd Guards Brigade, Guards Division) in France, 27 May 1916 - 5 August 1917, relating his daily life in the trenches on the Western Front; also with 11 miscellaneous ms letters (45pp), 4 of which are written in French, from various friends and acquaintances, concerning her work as a VAD, ms reports and lists (33pp) providing an inventory of the equipment needed for a temporary hospital, ts French and German phrasebooks issued by the Red Cross, ts leaflet (20pp) written by Major General Sir John Moore, printed in 1931, entitled An appreciation of the part played by animals during the war 1914-1918' as well as a substantial number of photographs primarily of the nurses and doctors she worked alongside.
Cataloguer CLS
Catalogue date 2008-02-26 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Loyd, I | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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