WWI
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WWI
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Information relating to the use of Hackford House & Reepham Town Hall as a Red Cross/VAD Hospital during WWI plus photographs of troops assembling/parading in Reepham Market Place.
Many of these images were used in the Reepham Archive Exhibition in 2014. The display boards are shown in the RA Exhibition Collection.
Many of these images were used in the Reepham Archive Exhibition in 2014. The display boards are shown in the RA Exhibition Collection.
Collection Items
VAD Personnel WWI
List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.
Army Band in the Market Place
Two images of an army band - Royal Artillery? - providing entertainment in Reepham Market Place during WWI watched by Reepham families, other uniformed troops and some recuperating soldiers in their hospital blues.Item #1112 – GB-REE-2112100959 is a…
Cavalry & Wagons in the Market Place
WWI : Cavalry & wagons in the Market Place.Photograph probably taken on the same day as Item #1326 - Cavalry in the Market Place - GB/REE/2302142000Note open window positions.
Cavalry on the Move
WWI : Cavalry moving through the Market Place with a few spectators.Photograph probably taken on the same day as Item #709 - Mounted soldiers passing Gibbs' shop - GB/REE/2004151304
Army Cyclists in the Rain
WWI army cyclists in the Market place with full kit, some wearing wet weather capes.
Sgt. Arthur Collison
Group photograph of Members Sergeants' Mess, 2/5th Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Sgt. Tailor A Collison, a Reepham man, is at the left hand end of the middle row. This is Arthur Collison (1881-1927), a tailor and a son of Arthur…
Sgt. Tailor A Collison, a Reepham man, is at the left hand end of the middle row. This is Arthur Collison (1881-1927), a tailor and a son of Arthur…
Dr Perry with a group of Nurses
Dr. Perry with a group of 10 of the nursing staff at Reepham Red Cross Hospital during WWI.Nurses Gibbs & Dewing are in the back row.
Nurses at Reepham Red Cross Hospital
Two photographs of six nurses based at the Reepham Red Cross Hospital during WWI.
Includes Nurses Gibbs & Dewing.
Includes Nurses Gibbs & Dewing.
Lady Grace Barry
Studio Portrait photograph signed Grace Barry and dated April 5 1919.
Lady Barry was the Commandant of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital. She is wearing the M. B. E. which she was awarded in Feb 1919.
Lady Barry was the Commandant of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital. She is wearing the M. B. E. which she was awarded in Feb 1919.
Frank and Ethel Leiper
Photograph of Frank Leiper and Ethel Keeley, their marriage certificate (1918) and her VAD card. Ethel Keeley was the VAD night nurse at Reepham Hospital during WWI. She gives this as her address on their marriage certificate. Frank was wounded and…
Evelyn Gibbs
Portrait photograph of Miss Evelyn Gibbs inscribed 'daughter of Mr. Edward Gibbs, Market Place, Reepham'.
During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital ,…
During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital ,…
Embroidered Red Cross Badge
Embroidered Red Cross Badge in a gold frame. The badge was worked and given to Miss Evelyn Gibbs by one of the wounded soldiers during the First World War. Evelyn served as Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in the Hackford…
Three Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses
On the reverse is written "Nurses at Bircham Centre, then known as Hackford House, 1914-1918 War".
Miniature cenotaph in memory of Cpl Robert Hall
A cast miniature replica of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Inscription reads: "ToThe Honour and Loving Memory of Cpl. Robert Hall, Ctestipon, Mesoptamia. Dec. Ist 1915. Robert Hall is listed on the Roll of Honour Board in Booton Church.Returned to Booton…
WWI Troops and Musicians in Reepham Market Place
A crowd listening to musicians in 'Hospital Blues' playing in Reepham Market Place. The shops signs show H.C.Peck and Miller.
The lady taking a photograph is Marjorie Gibbs.
The lady taking a photograph is Marjorie Gibbs.
Reepham Red Cross Hospital
A photograph of the Reepham Red Cross Hospital taken in the Town Hall showing Dr. Perry, nurses and recuperating soldiers sitting by their beds in their hospital ward.
Hackford House Troops Hospital
Original postcard of large group of soldiers and nurses in the grounds of Hackford House during WWI with the tower of St. Michael's Church in the background. Many men are wearing the blue uniform of wounded soldiers.
Soldiers in the Market Place, WWI
Soldiers with cycles and rifles on parade in Reepham Market Place. More cycles can be seen against the wall of Ivy House next to the Post Office on the left of the picture.
On the right can be seen signs for Gibbs and above the corner shop…
On the right can be seen signs for Gibbs and above the corner shop…
Mounted soldiers passing Gibbs shop
Large group of mounted soldiers riding towards the Market Place.
'Reepham' handwritten on the reverse.
'Reepham' handwritten on the reverse.
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