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With the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the Serbian/Bulgarian war
- Date
- 1916-1917
- Reference
- PA1-o-1013
- Description
The 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service attached to the Serbian army known as the American Unit, and commanded by Dr Agnes Bennett. This consisted of an ambulance unit and a field hospital. The images record wounded being brought in, views of the hospital camps and dressing stations in Serbian Macedonia at Dobraveni, Skocivir, and Ostrovo which seems to have been the main center for the unit's medical operations. There are photographs of the nursing staff, of Serbian military personel, of French engineers constructing a bridge over the Brod River, of Lake Ostrovo and Ostrovo Township, of Vodena (Edhessa) east of Ostrovo, and the town of Monastir (Bitola) in Serbian Macedonia which was the focus of one of the battles in the Serbian-Bulgarian war in March 1917. Several photographs show nurses celebrating May Day at the camp at Ostrovo. Others show Soldiers graves, a Serbian military funeral, two people watching the bombardment of Monastir from the summit of Mount Kaymakchalan, an amunition dump at Pelatino, a bombed church at Brod in Serbian Macedonia, Bulgarian guns captured by the Serbs, and samples of the local populations both Christian and Islamic.
In 1916 Agnes Bennett was appointed commanding officer of the 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service. From August 1916 her field hospital was attached to the Serbian army. An attack of Malaria led to her resignation in October 1917.(info from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol three, 1901-1920.
The second battle of Monistir (Bitola) took place from the 11th to the 19th of March, 1917.
The 7th Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service was called the American Unit because funds for its equipment and operation were raised in America. (Info from \"No Easy Path: The life and times of Lilian Violet Cooper,\" Lesley M Williams, Amphion Press, Brisbane, Australia, 1991.\")
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
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- Part of
- Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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UnknownDoctor Cooper and Miss Bedford cleaning boots outside a tent, Serbia.
Date: 1916-1917
From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1013-07-1
Description: Doctor Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford standing outside Doctor Cooper's tent, cleaning their boots, Ostrovo, Serbian Macedonia. Probably photographed by Doctor Agnes Bennett some time in 1916 or 1917. Dr Cooper and Josephine Bedford were life long friends and companions. They met while at London University, and emmigrated to Brisbane in 1891 where Dr Cooper set up practice. During the First World War they joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreigh Service, and spent a year in the 7th Medical Unit (also known as the American Unit) commanded by Dr Agnes Bennett, and attached to the Serbian Army. Dr Cooper joined as a surgeon, and Josephine Bedford as an orderly. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 7.4 cm