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Nurses of Passchendaele

Nurses of Passchendaele

Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 1918

Christine E. Hallett

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

Pen & Sword History

an imprint of

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

47 Church Street

Barnsley

South Yorkshire

S70 2AS

Copyright Christine E. Hallett, 2017

ISBN 978 1 52670 288 3

eISBN 978 1 52670 290 6

Mobi ISBN 978 1 52670 289 0

The right of Christine E. Hallett to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Map 1: The Ypres Front.

Map 2: Locations of Casualty Clearing Stations behind the Ypres Salient. (Reproduced by kind permission of Nelle Rote, from her book Nurse Helen Fairchild .)

List of Illustrations

Front cover: Portrait of Helen Fairchild. (Image appears by courtesy of Nelle Rote and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc.). Background images from Pen & Sword Books own collection

Back cover: Mobile Surgical No. 1. (Reproduced by kind permission of the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PR1986.0054.0012.0001))

Image 1: Portrait of Kate Luard as a young woman. (Image appears by kind courtesy of Caroline Stevens)

Image 2: Portrait of Sister Kate Luard seated outside her home, Birch Rectory, Essex, while on leave during the war. (Image appears by kind courtesy of Caroline Stevens)

Image 3: Portrait of Sister Kate Luard. (Image appears by kind courtesy of Caroline Stevens)

Image 4: Interior of Hospital Train No. 16. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of the Wills family and with the assistance of the National Railway Museum)

Image 5: Photograph taken in a treatment area at LHpital de lOcans Vinkem site. ( The Belgian Red Cross Archives, Brussels; reproduced with their permission)

Image 6: Exterior view of No. 8 British General Hospital at Rouen. (From the collection of Kate Maxey; reproduced by kind permission of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 7: Interior of a ward at No. 1 British General Hospital, tretat. (From the collection of Kate Maxey; reproduced by kind permission of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 8: A nursing sister with a group of walking wounded patients. (From the collection of Kate Maxey; reproduced by kind permission of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 9: Wound irrigation being performed by surgeon and nurses at LHpital de lOcan, La Panne. ( The Belgian Red Cross Archives, Brussels; reproduced with their permission)

Image 10: Portrait of Dorothea McFie, British volunteer nurse at LHpital de lOcan. (Reproduced by kind permission of Talbot House, Poperinge)

Image 11: Portrait of Alison McFie, British volunteer nurse at LHpital de lOcan. (Reproduced by kind permission of Talbot House, Poperinge)

Image 12: Chteau Couthove, Proven, as it appeared in 1917. (Reproduced by kind permission of Talbot House, Poperinge)

Image 13: Portrait of Nellie Morrice. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (H16062_2))

Image 14: Mobile Surgical No. 1: sentry box and gateway, with reception hut beyond. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1908_030))

Image 15: Mobile Surgical No. 1: on the far right is Agnes Warner, second from the right is Mary Borden. (From the Collection of Madeleine Morrison; reproduced by kind permission of the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PR1986.0054.0012.0001))

Image 16: Sister Lynette Crozier and two medical officers place a patients leg in traction at Mobile Surgical No 1. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1790_001))

Image 17: Nursing sisters of Mobile Surgical No. 1 visiting a slit trench. At the front, facing camera, from left: Annie Hanning, Agnes Warner, Hilda Loxton, Minnie Hough. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1790_002))

Image 18: Hilda Loxton bidding a patient goodbye at Mobile Surgical No. 1. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1790_003))

Image 19: The grave of Adrien Le Roux at Roeselare. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of Dirk Claerhout)

Image 20: Minnie Hough wearing her gas mask at Mobile Surgical No. 1. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1790_019))

Image 21: Annie Hanning working in the theatre of Mobile Surgical No. 1, with two French surgeons, suturing a series of leg wounds. (Reproduced with the permission of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia (PO1790_026))

Image 22: The Maxey family; Kate Maxey seated on the ground, far right. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 23: Portrait of Kate Maxey in her Leeds General Infirmary uniform. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 24: Image of a hutted hospital. (From the Collection of Kate Maxey; reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 25: Sister Kate Maxey (TFNS) with a group of patients. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 26: Sister Kate Maxey with an unnamed orderly. (Reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

Image 27: Image of a tented hospital, possibly British Casualty Clearing Station No. 58. (From the Collection of Kate Maxey; reproduced by kind courtesy of the Defty and Varley families)

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