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Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« on: Wednesday 17 February 21 20:22 GMT (UK) »
My sister and I have recently inherited a number of family photographs. In one of the albums we found this photograph - its postcard format so I believe most likely to have been taken after 1902. Is anyone on here able to offer any more accurate dates based on the uniform that the nurse is wearing.
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Carra
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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 18 February 21 22:47 GMT (UK) »
It looks like She could be wearing a VAD WW1 uniform.
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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 18 February 21 23:04 GMT (UK) »
Very like - except didn't they have a red cross on their bibs?  Or was that only some of them?

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 18 February 21 23:14 GMT (UK) »
Some of them did Wiggy but not all of them, I think some where trained nurses and others were volunteers.
Carol
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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 18 February 21 23:21 GMT (UK) »
Ah ha - thanks - I thought the VAD were volunteers.      ;)   But I catch your drift!   :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #5 on: Friday 19 February 21 00:48 GMT (UK) »
Vera Brittain (Testament of Youth, etc) was a VAD nurse in WW1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain

https://simonjoneshistorian.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/vb.jpg

I still read her books every so often.
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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #6 on: Friday 19 February 21 03:42 GMT (UK) »
Very similar - different 'hat'   ;)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #7 on: Friday 19 February 21 08:18 GMT (UK) »
Hope you don't mind, Carra. I couldn't resist giving the nurse a makeover. :)
Peter
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Re: Cheshire - Photo of Nurse
« Reply #8 on: Friday 19 February 21 09:47 GMT (UK) »
Vera Brittain (Testament of Youth, etc) was a VAD nurse in WW1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain

https://simonjoneshistorian.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/vb.jpg

I still read her books every so often.

Me too, I loved that book, she was a very special lady and suffered her own heartbreak too  :-\
I did a display about her which drew a lot of interest, very satisfying.

Carol
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