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Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
- Date
- ca 1914-1919
- Reference
- PAColl-0400
- Description
Photographs of nurses taken during and just after the First World War in Hornchurch, England and Alexandria, Egypt.
Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-0400-1, PAColl-0400-2 and PAColl-2293. Negatives housed at 1/2-072008 and 072017
Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 item(s) of photographic ephemera.
Physical Description: Mounted and loose prints
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 15 b&w original photographic print(s), 7 item(s) of photographic ephemera, Photographs, Mounted and loose prints
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Photographs relating to nursing in World War I
Date: ca 1914-1919
From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
By: Lawrie, G (Mrs), active 1976; Oliver & Walker (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-0400-1
Description: Photographs of nurses during and just after the First World War: a group photograph of 77 nurses taken on a tennis court; nurses in fancy dress (the names are Milne, Boyd, Neal, Parker, Spragg, Sister Sisley, Williams, Gallagher, Chappell, Sisters Jackman and Young, Tilly, Naera and Edgerton); a studio portrait of a nurse; a nurse in St Antonio Gardens (location uncertain but possibly Egypt) holding a bouquet of orange blossom; the stall of a sugar cane and fruit seller in Alexandria, Egypt; and eight photographs of army huts in Hornchurch and others of the surrounding area in the snow but including one of the cenotaph in Whitehall, London. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted and loose prints
Postcards relating to nursing in World War I
Date: [ca 1914-1918]
From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
Reference: PAColl-0400-2
Description: Postcards of nurses and New Zealand army officers convalescing. They include: the hospital ship Marama in Alexandria harbour; one of a soldier in tropical uniform with the caption "Yours severely scorpioned L C Kenney 22/10/15"; two army patients signed "8/3475 L Ballantine 2/10/17" and addressed to Sister Commons at Brockenhurst Hospital; and one captioned Epsom Nursing Division St John's Ambulance from which the workers of the Epsom Convalescent Home are drawn with the following names: back row - Nurses Craig, Snelling, Reid, Morton, Beale, McLaughlan, Walsh, Cumming, Young; middle row - Nurses Baird, Sinclair, Oliphant, Neill, Commons, Dawason, Chamtalour, Goodfellow, Summer, Clark, Daubney, Mackay, M Hesketh; front row - Nurses Buller, Butler, Turner, Firth (superintendant), Dr Dudley, Towle, Abbott, Macfarlane. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Photographs of No.1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, England
Date: ca 1914-1918
From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
By: Elliott & Fry (Firm)
Reference: PAColl-2293
Description: Two photographs of groups of nurses outside the hospital at Brockenhurst, one including two New Zealand army officers. One is taken by Elliott & Fry of London and includes the following names: back row - Sister Sinclair, Thomson (Martin), Newell, Mrs Radcliffe (VAD), Sister Douglas; middle row - Sisters Reidy, Drummond, Wise, Lea, Major Home, Captain Julian, Sisters Kidd, Crispin, James, M Boyd; front row - Sisters Commons, Samson, Scott (Matron), Moore. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).
Nurses and officers from Balmer Lawn Section, no 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brocke...
Date: [between 1914-1919]
From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I
Reference: 1/2-072017-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative