Weybridge

Date: 1914-1918

By: Levick, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-5609

Description: A personal record of family, friends, holidays, nurses, hospitals and soldiers. The New Zealand content is just part of the record of Audrey Beeton's life between 1914 and 1924. Overall the albums give a view of the well off middle class life of a woman whose father was a knight and whose husband was a Royal Navy surgeon and an antarctic explorer. If Audrey Beeton was a nurse at the St George's Hill auxiliary hospital, it is likely that she volunteered as part of the war effort. There are no photos of her in nurses uniform. The impression is much more that of a daughter of the local gentry taking a patriotic and practical interest in the health, welfare and comfort of the troops, but with plenty of time to take part in week end house parties and lawn tennis. Arrangement: Albums at PA1-o-853 to PA1-o-856 Audrey Beeton, creator of the collection, was in some way associated with the brick house through family or friends. Her home was probably 'Duneevan', the other house that features throughout the albums. Quantity: 4 album(s). Provenance: Albums compiled by Audrey Beeton, who appears to have been one of the nurses. Audrey Beeton was a daughter of Sir Mayson Beeton and married the naval surgeon and antarctic explorer, Murray Levick. Processing information: St George's Hill Hospital previously described as being located in Weymouth (Dorset), corrected to Weybridge (Surrey) on advice of researcher. 10 January 2017

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014120-G

Description: Group portrait of the orchestra at Oatlands Park, the World War I New Zealand military hospital in Weybridge, Surrey. The members, dressed in khaki, pose with their instruments. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - UK317 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014125-G

Description: Group portrait of the medical officers with the matron and sisters at Oatlands Park, the World War I New Zealand military hospital in Weybridge, Surrey. The group poses outside with the hospital and trees as a backdrop. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK322 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014123-G

Description: Group portrait of the medical officers and amputee soldiers at Oatlands Park, the World War I New Zealand military hospital in Weybridge, Surrey. The group poses outside with the hospital and trees as a backdrop. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK320 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/4-009547-G

Description: Group portrait of the matron, sisters and medical officers at Oatlands Park the New Zealand auxiliary hospital in England during World War I. Original photographer is unidentified. Copy negative may have been made by Henry Armytage Sanders. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1914-1918

From: Crown Studios Ltd :Negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-203697-F

Description: Photograph of Oatlands Park Hospital, taken during World War I by Crown Studio Ltd of Wellington. The Oatland Park Hotel was requisitioned in 1916 and used as a Casualty Hospital for the New Zealand Forces serving in France. [Info from www.oatlandsparkhotel.com] Inscription on original negative envelope - #49 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014148-G

Description: General view of the exterior of Oatlands Park, the auxiliary New Zealand military hospital in England, during World War I. View from the driveway showing snow on the lawns. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - UK345 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-014122-G

Description: Group portrait of the medical officers and staff (NCOs?) at Oatlands Park, the World War I New Zealand military hospital in Weybridge, Surrey. The group poses outside with the hospital and trees as a backdrop. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK319 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1908-1919

By: Levick, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980

Reference: MSX-9386

Description: Autograph album belonging to Edith Audrey Beeton. Includes entries from 1908 to 1918, including the period when she was a nurse during the First World War at the St George's Hill Auxiliary Hospital, Weybridge, England. Includes sketches and autographs of New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers. The approximately 185 autograph entries generally consist of the individual's name and service number, rank and unit, along with the date of the entry. Some also have a personal remark added, such as 'In remembrance of happy hours spent in Walton', by a member of the New Zealand Light Railway Operating Company. Ownership inscription on first free endpaper states 'Edith Audrey Beeton, July 30th 1908, 310 St James Court, Westminster, S.W.I.' The album includes eleven original artistic illustrations and two illustrated manuscript programmes laid in: - Ink drawing of a cat, signed by E Caldwell of the SS 'Pythia', dated 25 October 1910. - Pencil drawing of a dog named 'Don', signed Eileen Hood, dated 1909. - Ink and watercolour drawing of a young girl wearing clogs, signed W Cowles, no date. - Ink drawing with the title 'London Bridge, Torquay', signed with initials, dated 1918. - Pencil drawing of mounted cavalry soldier on horseback, signed, no date. - Pencil and watercolour drawing of a female in profile, signed Violet Hood, dated 4 September 1908. - Ink drawing of a stylised nurse in uniform, signed, dated 1918. - Ink and coloured pencil cartoon-style drawing depicting war scenarios from a New Zealand soldier's perspective, signed 'W S Cumberland N.Z.R.B.', dated 29 December 1917. - Pencil drawing of the head of a horse wearing a full double bridle, also known as a Weymouth bridle, signed Kitty Hood, dated 27 September 1908. - Pencil and watercolour drawing of a child wearing clogs and seated on a fence holding two chickens, signed R G Lee, no date, on paper mounted on album page. - Watercolour drawing of a building and gardens with large trees, signed, dated 8 September 1908. - Ink on paper, manuscript programme with illustration on cover, bifolium, 'Programme. Cranford. House 4. March 26th', includes list of roles and cast ('Dramatis Personae') and an overview of the play in two acts (four scenes). - Ink, pencil and watercolour, manuscript programme with illustration on front cover, bifolium tied with pink ribbon, 'Program - Love is Blind', includes cast list divided into 'extras' and 'propers'. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Autograph album - padded maroon full leather binding with the title 'Album' in gilt lettering on front cover, marbled endpapers, 80 leaves of pastel pink, blue, yellow and green tinted paper and art paper with 24 leaves of tissue interleaving; two loose bifolium manuscript items laid in. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Collection of four photographic prints originally enclosed with autograph album (PAColl-10398). Includes illustrations in a range of watercolour, ink and pencil, depicting horses, dogs, cats, men (including as soldiers), women, children, and buildings.

Date: 1914-1916

From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918

Reference: PA1-o-853

Description: Most of the album shows life and leisure persuits at Duneevan and soldiers and nurses at the St George's Hill Military Hospital at Weybridge. There is some connection between the house and the hospital as there are photographs of soldiers boating on the lake or "Broadwater" in the garden at Duneevan. There are four pictures of British troops on their way to Bisley in August 1914 and one of a group of Belgians (presumably refugees). There is no indication that all the soldiers depicted are New Zealanders, and there is only one page specifically headed "New Zealanders". It is possible that Duneevan was the home of the creator of the album, Audrey Beeton who also may have worked as a nurse at the St George's Hill Hospital. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).