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GB 0120 GC/40 1915-1916 Collection (fonds) 1 box Hunt , Rosa Louise , fl 1915
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'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.
This volume was purchased by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1971, and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.
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Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Mar 2009. Midwifery Medical institutions Community health nursing Medical sciences Therapy Medical treatment Emergency treatment First aid Health services Hospitals Hospitals, military Wars (events) World wars (events) World War One (1914-1918) Nursing Military medicine Hunt , Rosa Louise , fl 1915 Red Cross , Voluntary Aid Detachment Malta Western Europe Europe
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'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.
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This volume was purchased by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1971, and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
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