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Ref NoDEP/CHM/1
Acc No2011/9
Title[Photograph album of Marjorie Chapman]
Date3 Feb 1915 - 1917
TermFirst World War
Description Of ItemThe 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)
Extent1 volume
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