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DEP/ANO/32

Address delivered by Mr Raymond Poincare, Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow

Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934) was the first person from overseas to be elected Rector of the University. He held the office from 1914 until 1919.

Poincaré was a former Prime Minister who had been elected President of France in 1913. After his country and Britain went to war with Germany in August 1914, the political clubs at the University agreed to issue a joint invitation to him to stand unopposed for the rector's office, as a gesture to 'the close bond of union between France and Great Britain'. The candidates who had previously been nominated to stand in the election agreed to withdraw.

He delivered this rectoral address on a day close to the first anniversary of the Armistice, referring to the 'auld alliance' and to the sacrifices made by Scottish men and women who fought in France during the war. Afterwards, he was presented with the freedom of the city of Glasgow.

13 Nov 1919

DEP/ANO/48

Parliamentary War Savings Committee posters

Envelope post marked 1915 containing 6 posters of the Parliamentary War Savings Committee, advertising investment in war loans.

c1915

DEP/BRE/3/1/13

Letter from Sir Alfred Keogh, Director General of the Army Medical Service to Edwin Bramwell

He thanks Bramwell for his 'lucid' letter and will help with 'every means in my power' and mentions that Sir George Beatson wants to see him about the Red Cross.

1 Jun 1916

DEP/CHM

Collection of Marjorie Chapman

1915 - 1919

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[Photograph album of Marjorie Chapman]

The photographs are captioned although the captions are less frequent towards the end of the volume (descriptions have been put in brackets). Descriptions such as 'Millicent' men refer to the name of their ward. Captions are:

p1 Frances Ivens

p2 Royaumont May 6th 1915 - the entrance, the hall door, the abbaye

p3 the refectory (two views)

p4 the tower, the terrace, side entrance

p5 the lake; 'Millicent' men (two punts with soldiers and two nurses); on the lake (a punt with two nurses and two soldiers)

p6 the rose garden (with two nurses); outside the chateau; the fishing pond

p7 Sister (J H) Speirs; daddy-long-legs (a soldier sitting on a ruined column); Speirs and Chapman

p8 Sister (Jessie) McLaren and Chapman (with a swan); (Osmond?) Williams and Ellis (next to a British Red Cross Society ambulance); Williams and Alexander (Alexander a soldier who signed and dated the photograph 3rd February 1915); Sister McLaren and Chapman with Blackie (an Indian soldier)

p9 Baillon woods; a zouave; tea time (soldier and some nurses having tea on the grass); Inglis and 'Blanche' men

p10 'Blanche' men; the garage (man and a woman changing a tyre); Speirs and Chapman

p11 Sister Speirs; Chapman; Morrison and Oldham (Morrison a soldier)

p12 the front door; tea time (nurses and a soldier taking tea on the grass); 'Mary' men; Miss Ivens and Miss Nicholson; the cloisters (a group of soldiers in deck chairs in the cloisters)

p13 a joy ride (nurse in a horse drawn carriage); Speirs; (nurse unloading a Red Cross van)

p14 Speirs and Chapman; Speirs; the lake (two soldiers and two nurses in a punt)

p15 Boran; Sister Speirs; 'Millicent' men (a group of eight soldiers with two nurses)

p16 Royaumont in winter 1915 (4 photographs of the grounds)

p17 snow in the cloisters; Winter 1916 (Nurse Macgregor in a fur coat); Macgregor; 1916 (three nurses and a dog in the snow)

p18 'Millicent' men (overhead and close-up views of men in beds in the cloisters); Williams and Macgregor (with an ambulance); Williams (standing on the bonnet of an ambulance); 'Millicent' men (a group of eight soldiers)

p19 the abbaye woods; the hospital pets (two nurses with two dogs and a rabbit); Dimiter and Frank (a dog and a cat); Williams (with a dog)

p20 Jack and Peter (nurses with two dogs and a rabbit); wounded leaving (stretchers being loaded into ambulances); Jack and Peter (rabbit and small dog); going out (soldier on a stretcher with nurses being loaded on to an ambulance)

p21 Chapman (dated 23rd July 1915); 'Mary' men (five soldiers with four nurses); (Eunice?) Macgregor (in uniform next to an ambulance); Dimiter; Binks (nurse holding rabbits)

p22 Young; (Helga?) Gill (nurse with dog); Young and Meigh; Binks; Mae Ray (nurse with dog); 'Millicent' men (group of twelve soldiers including an African); Nouaei [? - an Arab soldier]

p23 Young (loading bedding); G W English (a soldier); Main and Chapman; Young (nurse at the wheel of an ambulance); Mac (Eunice Macgregor); Arabs (three Arab soldiers); Kennedy

p24 'Elsie' men (four Arab soldiers); Webster, Williams and Main; Chapman and Cardew; Mac and Chapman; El Arabi and Sister

p25 El Hadi and Nouaei; hall door (nurses with ambulance); 'Millicent' men (four soldiers, two with arms in slings); Millicent 1917; Zango Koute (an African soldier in his bed attended by three nurses); 27th Dragoons (soldier on a horse)

p26 El Arabi, Omar (?) and Nouaei (with a nurse); Chapman; Daillon (group of soldiers outside); Millicent ward (five soldiers with two nurses); 75 is in the foreground (soldiers, horses and artillery)

p27 El Hadi, Chapman and 'Mackie' (two Arab soldiers); 'Elsie' men (seven African and Arab soldiers with nurses); Diene, Coulibaly and Salifous (three African soldiers with a nurse); Ben Hassen (Arab soldier with a nurse); the 'Petits Enfants' (two African soldiers with two nurses); Salifous Diallo (in his bed attended by two nurses)

p28 Blacks and Arabs (seven soldiers with three nurses); Abdalla ben Ali; ready for a walk (five African and Arab soldiers in overcoats); the 'Petit Enfant' (African soldier in his bed); an 'Elsie' group (African and Arab soldiers); 'Elsie' men

p29 'Elsie' ward (two Africans and three Arabs in their ward); the 'Petit Enfant' and Chapman; 'Elsie' men (six African and Arab soldiers with two nurses); Gill, Macgregor and Chapman; Samfia Diallo (in his bed with three other Africans, an Arab and a nurse)

p30 Webster, Mac (Macgregor) and Main; a few of the wounded; 'Elsie' group; Salifous (African soldier); Soso (African soldier); Salifous, Ginger (a nurse) and Coulibaly

p31 'Blackies' on the terrace; A Pinson; Chapman; Webster; Williams, Mac and Young 1917 (all in fur coats); Banks

p32 skating on the lake 1917; Gill and Chapman; Bébè and Lakdai (? Arab soldiers); Millicent (group of soldiers); Bébè; Chapman (with a dog)

p33 Williams and Bogs (a dog); Williams 1917 (at the wheel of an ambulance); Young; Macgregor (cleaning at a trough)

p34 Main and Webster in Paris; Webster; the garage (four nurses and an ambulance); Main (with an ambulance); Elsie after the fire (fire damage to ward)

p35 the white elephant (an omnibus); the garage (four nurses, dogs and ambulance); C O (Frances Ivens?) starting out for Compiègne and Soissons

p36 Young; 75 at farm, Royaumont (two soldiers with artilliery); fancy dress race (two soldiers dressed up); sports 1917

p37; wheelbarrow race - Millicent winning 1917; April 1st (two views of soldiers bandaged on stretchers in front of smiling crowd); sports 1917 - Millicent winning; Watching sports; flat race (nurses)

p38 Williams and Young; Bébè and Monsieur Chic; Blacks (African and Arab soldiers); Coulibaly and Diaovo (with three nurses); fancy dress race; 1 April 1917

p39 Boche prisoners (view of soldiers working at a rail head); S Lieut Guyot (two photographs); Webster in Paris; Mac and Chapman (on horseback)

p40 June 6th 1917 - packing lorry for Soissons; La Place; Inglis starting for the canteen June 6th; Soissons Cathedral (five views); outside cathedral (with five nurses)

p41 inside the cathedral (after damage); Champagne 1916 (view of trenches); Boche corpse 1916; Missy sur Aisne; washing day

p42 Soissons station (three views); (two views of Soissons); cathedral front view; (an African and two Arab soldiers)

p43 the four 'cantiniers' - the canteen Soissons 1917 (three photographs); Lieut Canlier (?); S Lieut Guyot; Chapman; Rolt

p44 June 17th 1917 (two Royaumont staff photographs, overhead view of a presentation and interior decorated)

p45 Toison (?) d'Or (soldier holding horse); Maous!! (soldiers with bombs); Lorette 1915 (view of trenches); putting into position 105 - Lorette 1915 (trenches and artillery); Lieut Guyot (two photographs)

p46 Capt D'Este; (five photographs similar to those on p43 of the canteen staff)

p47 Capt D'Este and Rolt; (soldier sitting on the bank of a lake); shell hole; (felled tree with soldier); Rolt (nurse taking photograph)

p48 team of oxen; Stewart.; Stewart and Webster (two photographs); (four soldiers sitting amongst ruins); (two nurses at Royaumont); (two photographs of soldiers in the wards)

p49 (two photographs of groups of soldiers and nurses outside); (two soldiers next to an ambulance, one in a kilt); (nurse examing ambulance)

p50 (nurse with three African soldiers); (nurses next to ambulance); (three soldiers shovelling rubble); (nurse and an African soldier on a bench); (Mac in her fur coat); (nurse and a soldier in an ambulance); (nurses and soldiers outside ruined wooden buildings)

p51 (a soldier and nurses being pulled on a sledge); (nurse and soldiers in a ward); (ruined buildings); (three photographs of nurses in the grounds)

p52 (five photographs of nurses and senior medical staff with a senior army officer)

3 Feb 1915 - 1917

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[Medals of Marjorie Chapman]

Medal 1 - front - Republique Francaise, reverse - 1914-1918, cross with crossed swords on green and red ribbon;

Medal 2 - front - Republique Francaise, reverse - Ministère de la Guerre Devoument Epidémies Miss M Chapman 1917, circular medal with red white and blue ribbon in presentation box

Medal 3 - front - SBM 1914-1918, reverse - Société Francaise de Secours aux Blessés Militaires des Armèes de Terre et de Mer cross on white ribbon with red cross

Medal 4 - front - SB Patrie Devoument reverse - Royaumont 1915 Société Francaise de Secours aux Blessés Militaires 1864-1866 Marjorie Chapman on white ribbon with red cross

Medal 5 - front - 1914 - 1918, reverse - Georgius V Britt Omn Rex et Ind Imp, on blue, black white and orange ribbon;

Medal 6 - NUWSS - Scottish Womens Hospitals on tartan ribbon

Medal 7 - The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919

Also, two SWH badges; a badge with four miniatures of George V medal, Republique Francaise 1914-1918 medal, The Great War For Civilisation 1914-1919 medal, and Ministère de l'Intérieur Epidémies medal on ribbons; ribbons with stars; and spare ribbons.

c1919

DEP/COJ/1/2

Journal of John Dixon Comrie

Towards the end of his stay he examined prisoners suffering from the effects of mustard gas and a new tear gas. Perhaps his most bizarre and unfortunate case was that of a man 'found dead after having celebrated with too much rejoicing his prospective return to England'. Since his heart showed recent endocarditis, however, his death was tactfully attributed to military causes so that his widow would be eligible for a pension.

On the political front Comrie believed that 'if the British cabinet would only adopt a firm attitude, send out a moderate force ... and announce that the Allies are definitely going to help the Russians right through till freedom is gained, Bolshevism would be dead by next Spring.' He realised that the 'average soldier' wanted to get home and thought they should not be there. Of four commissars he spoke to personally, one thought the Russians should be left to sort out their own affairs, but three thought there would be no peace unless a foreign power, preferably Britain, settled the matter.

However, when Comrie went to Koska, Russia to see the Bolshevik prisoners, or 'Bolos' as they were nick-named, being dis-infested for lice, he was surprised to find that 'a very large number, perhaps the majority, are very young lads; not the loafers, drunkards and hairy villains whom one expects to see'. Later he comments that out of the 2000 prisoners taken on the Dvina front, some 700 were in fact anti-Bolsheviks kept in the army 'through terrorism', and adds that the rank and file often show great resentment towards their commissars.

[Source: biography written by archivist Joy Pitman, c1990; see biographical file]

22 Aug 1919-20 Sep 1919

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'History of Medicine and Nursing' by John Dixon Comrie

Comrie has annotated it with margin notes on subjects. Includes a cutting from The Nursing Times on the war-time history of nursing.

1920s

DEP/CRO/1

NUWSS [National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies] - The Call of Our Allies and the Response of...

From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. The booklet is sub-titled 'Being Record of Work accomplished by the Scottish Women's Hospitals in France and Serbia'. It includes a list of the Scottish Women's Hospital Committee and administrative staff and a list of the staff at Royaumont, Krgujevlaz and Troyes. It is illustrated with photographs.

Jun 1915

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List of Members of the Royaumont and Villers Cotterets Association of the Scottish Women's Hospitals

From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton.

1950

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Royaumont Association France 1914-18 List of Members

From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton.

1954

DEP/CRO/4

[Record of staff at Royaumont hospital]

From the collection of Lady Eileen Crofton. The Scottish Women's Hospitals used the abbey at Royaumont as a hospital. Ledger arranged alphabetically by staff members surname. Gives name, occupation, dates of service, private address and in some cases brief details of subsequent career or date of death. Includes newspaper clippings on the death, marriage etc of staff members and a letter from C O'Rorke to the Serbian Relief Committee of America, 1920.

c1920-1970s

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Letter from Harvey Cushing to Mrs Ewald, United States of America

The letter is on paper headed 'Dr Harvey Cushing, The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston'. He thanks her for her comments on his biography of Osler. He goes into more detail about the death of Osler's son in the First World War, writing that Revere was given letters of introduction to the Ewalds in case he was taken prisoner. He promises to send her messages to the Barkers and the Futchers.

9 May 1927

DEP/FOU/4/7/2

Certificate of the Croix-Rouge Française awarded to Madame Argyle Robertson

Part of a collection of papers relating to the family of James Foulis. The certificate from the French Red Cross recognises Argyll Robertson's work during the First World War. She founded a Maison de Convalescence in Dinan in December 1916.

28 Jun 1919

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'War Psychoses I - A Report of Six Unusual Cases showing Memory Disorder II - Amnesia as a...

Reprint from the Review of Neurology and Psychiatry.

May 1918

DEP/HDK/3/14

'War Psychoses - Dementia Praecox in War Time' by David Kennedy Henderson

Reprint from the Review of Neurology and Psychiatry.

Nov 1918

DEP/INE

Collection of Elsie Inglis

1896-2021

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Letters by patient John C L Bohrmann

From the collection of Samuel Kinnier Wilson. The letters are addressed to government figures all over the world and to Dr Wilson concerning the First World War.

1910s

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[Rough patient notes by Samuel Kinnier Wilson]

Probably by Kinnier Wilson. Includes a least one set of notes for a soldier.

1905-1918

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Account of patient's experience in the war

From the collection of Samuel Kinnier Wilson.

1916