Valetta, Malta

Mitchell, Sheila Macbeth, 1916, Document, Photograph

Valetta, Malta

Category

Library Item

Item no

41414

Title

Valetta, Malta

Description

Photographs taken whilst Sheila was on her way home. Excerpt taken from " A nursing sister 's diary p.8 "

....After four days, when we were very happy - knowing we were at last on our way home - we reached Valetta, where we were met by the P.M. and all put into ambulances and sent to the different Hospitals on the island. I went with seven others to "St. Georges" and found several friends there, one I was at school with and several from the "London". Altogether I had a great many acquaintances in Malta. We were well stared at when driving along in our white caps, Serbian Boy Scout hats, out-at-toe slippers etc. I had not got any shoes in Athens as they asked £4 for a pair of boots there! My thin pumps had got very wet in the life-boat and when dry had split right across. - still, they took me to Malta all right. One of the Sisters on the "Grandtully Castle" lent me a pair of smart white shoes and stockings and pressed me to keep them. But I gave them back again as the others were envious to see me so grand.

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

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell

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