Salt, Mildred Jane, 1874-1950

Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1913

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. - Features three pictures under the heading "1st Wedding in the NZ ANS [New Zealand Army Nursing Service] - Cairo", taken at the wedding of Nurse Mildred Jane Ellis and Lieutenant Alexander Edward Wrottesley Salt at Cairo, 21 May 1916. - Includes photographs taken in Egypt circa 1915-1916 showing gate of New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, military personnel posing with camels at the pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, temple ruins and pillars at Luxor, group portrait of Egyptian women, and hospital train in Alexandria. Other images show the sultan's palace, the sultan's guard, a swing bridge over a canal in Barrage Gardens, the river Nile, and the citadel of Cairo. - Images from England feature Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, also the Rufus Stone and Compton Arms Hotel, in New Forest. Photographs taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, show interior views showing hospital wards, building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. - Scotland is featured in images taken at Edinburgh, Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, and at Loch Lomond. - From New Zealand there are photographs of a parade of Reinforcements at Trentham. - Australian scenes include troops marching past Dog Rock in Albany, Western Australia. - Also includes image of a Canadian Women's Motor Ambulance and the Cunard Line ship RMS 'Aquitania'. - A series of images of Gallipoli probably not taken by Newell. Arrangement: Album originally received with eight loose prints and greeting card enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: Manufactured by the Heinn Co. Milwaukee, Wis[consin] 0663), black leather binding with title, 'Jaunts Abroad', in gilt lettering on cover, black pages with plain paper interleaving, 18 x 30 cm.

Date: 24 May 1916

From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history

Reference: MS-Papers-11253-44

Description: Letter written from Cairo, Egypt where Mildred Salt was working as a nurse. The letter contains an account of her activities in Cairo and also includes family news. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 9 digitised images

Date: 5 Jul 1915-10 Jan 1931

From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history

Reference: MSX-8899

Description: Main part of the diary covers the period 1915-1919 with intermittent brief entries after this date. Mildred left with a group of 79 nurses from Wellington, 11 July 1915 bound for Egypt where she served in a hospital in Cairo. In early June 1916 she left Egypt for England where she was stationed at Brockenhurst Hospital. In March 1919 she sailed back to New Zealand then returned to England again arriving in Oct 1919 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 188 digitised images