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Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
- 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
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- No access restrictions
- Format
- 4 album(s), Photographs
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Photographs of New Zealand soldiers in Hospital in England
Date: ca1915
From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
Reference: PAColl-5609-1
Description: Two photographs of Christmas celebrations for New Zealand troops in an unidentified military Hospital in England. There is also a photograph of Audrey Beeton, another unidentified woman, and an unidentified English village. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) All are photographic postcards.
Photographs of Beeton family members and friends as portraits or at the seaside and in ...
Date: ca1915
From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
Reference: PA1-o-856
Description: As well as family and friends etc. there are three photographs of nurses and men in (presumably) a military hospital, and a photograph of a New Zealand soldier in military dress photographed outside. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
New Zealand Military Hospital Walton on Thames, holidays, family, and health services f...
Date: 1917-1924
From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
Reference: PA1-o-854
Description: One page shows general views of sports held at the New Zealand Military Hospital at Walton on Thames in 1917. There are personal photographs of Audrey Beeton taken in the Lake district on holiday with a friend, and others of her family at St George's Hill. Two groups of photographs record health services for children. They may relate to T B and its control, or be something like health camps. One was The Girls Heritage at Chailey and the other was the Chailey Marine Annex for boys at Tidemills. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Family and friends at leasure, mostly at "Duneevan", England
Date: ca1915
From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
Reference: PA1-o-855
Description: Mainly family, friends, groups of people, many of them taken at "Duneevan". People playing tennis, golf and cricket, and boating on the "Broadwater" at "Duneevan". There are three photographs of men in bed. These probably relate to the St George's Hill Hospital, Weybridge as the windows of the rooms depicted have the many paned leaded windows shown in other albums where parts of the hospital buildings can be seen. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Belgian refugees in England
Date: 1915
From: Beeton, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980: Photographs of the New Zealand hospital, St George's Hill, Weybridge, England, 1914-1918
Reference: PA1-o-853-14-2
Description: A group of Belgian refugees photographed standing on a lawn in the garden of Duneevan, a country house possibly near Weymouth or Weybridge, England. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 11.5 x 9 cm