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Scrapbook, 1917-09 - 1918-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/7

Scope and Contents

This scrapbook largely covers Eleanor's time in Paris, before travelling back to London and later Scotland. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of paper on the right-hand side of her volume. Eleanor accompanies many of her typescript entries with postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings of the people and events mentioned.

In her diary entries, Eleanor reflects on: work and social engagements; visiting La Barre, La Negresse [Biarritz] and Bordeaux [France]; meeting [Norah Desmond] Hackett; the movement of Miss Lowther [possibly Toupie Lowther] to Mitchelham hospital; Reginald [Eleanor's husband] suffering from indigestion; visiting canteen run by women; nearly dying in a road accident; visit by Sylvia [daughter]; attending the wedding of Frances Park and Captain Stanley; visiting Zena [daughter-in-law]; spending Christmas with the Addisons; meeting Alma Tadema who acted as Counsul in Poland; visiting Vera Bate; attending social engagements with Zena; experiencing air raids; travelling from Paris to London; reflections on impact of war on women’s faces in London; visiting Sylvia’s children; experiencing air raid in Tilney Street during a visit from Oliver and Antoinette [son and daughter-in-law]; reflections on the different ways her children dealt with the air raids; travelling to The Roman Camp, Callander [Scotland]; evacuation of Sylvia’s children to Callander.

Other items include: pressed flowers; postcards of Biarritz; letter from ‘La Fédération nationale d'assistance aux mutilés des armées de terre et de mer’ thanking Eleanor for donation towards supporting people with disabilities; newspaper clipping on Scottish Memorial to Lord Kitchener; a poem titled ‘Three Hills’ by Everard Owen; newspaper clipping of a soldier’s dug-out village on the Western Front; newspaper article written by ‘a discharged Sergeant’ on time spent in Ypres; a poem titled ‘Clouds’ by Edward Shanks; letter thanking Eleanor for providing a prosthetic leg; newspaper clipping about fraudulent activities of Sidney Learwood aimed at the nobility; newspaper feature on Battalion comprised of Russian women; newspaper photographs showing impact of war on Ypres; photographs of troops carrying duckboards over line trench near Cambrai [France]; maps showing British and German attack routes at Cambrai; newspaper cutting on Eleanor and Reginald presenting Order of St John of Jerusalem to women running Astoria Hospital [Paris]; photographs showing damage to British Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem; telegram from Hackett; Christmas card from Intelligence Section of GHQ [General Headquarters]; photograph of painter working in a studio near Bapaume [France] and posters designed by soldier artists; newspaper cutting on death of General [Paul François] Grossetti by Reginald Brett; a newspaper cutting of a letter sent to the editor of the Morning Post by Reginald on French morale; photographs of troops in a frontline trench; photographs of zeppelin balloons and untying a man from his parachute; letters and drawing addressed to Reginald from artist William Orpen; a poem titled ‘The Smells of Home’ [by Rosaleen Graves, sister of Robert Graves]; drawing of a Red Cross Train; photographs of washing day in the trenches, camouflaging a hut, troops returning to England and 2 Tilney Street [Esher residence]; illustrations of London during wartime; meat card; photographs of an observation balloon burning, surrounded by troops and a dog; soldiers cultivating ground near Arras [France]; photographs of trenches near St Quentin, nurses on Red Cross Barge near Aire [France] and inside; South African Memorial Service at Delville Wood, troops in Ypres, Roman Camp, Callander [Esher residence], fallen Gotha plane, members of FANY [First Aid Yeomanry Nursing] repairing vehicles and loading supplies, Signaller WAACs [Women's Army Auxiliary Corps] preparing ground for planting potatoes, bomb damage at Bethune and troops on duty near Arras, British intelligence officers interviewing Germans, fallen German Albatross plane and Royal Engineers laying cables near Fosse Farm, soldiers at St Etienne [France] and on the Menin Road [France], troops constructing roads, digging trenches, moving ammunition; photograph of Limber driver and horse in a gas mask near La Bassée; British airship moving across coast; damage in Houplines and St Julien Road [France].

Dates

  • Creation: 1917-09 - 1918-03

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 volume(s)

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2019-01-18 16:31:48+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
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