Postcards of Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham

Category

Library Item

Item no

41365

Title

Postcards of Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham

Description

4 postcards with scenes of Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham

Page from Sheila Macbeth Mitchell Scrapbook (1890-1920), who served as a nurse during World War One and who travelled on the H.S. Britannic final ill-fated voyage.

Artist / maker

Mitchell, Sheila Macbeth

Date

1916

Size

35.5 x 26.5 cm

Type

Document; Photograph; Postcard

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell

In 1915 and with the war continuing in Europe, Sheila Macbeth Mitchell served as an auxiliary in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Hospital Nursing Services, noting sometime later,
"In 1915, the London Hospitals were asked to take people like me for 6 months training - so that there would be enough nurses to look after the wounded. I went to Training School of London Hospital for 6 weeks in Bow - & then worked at the Hospital in Whitechapel for 6 months - after which I became a Special Military Probationer attached to Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service Q.A.M.N.S. My 1st Station was outside Nottingham".

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