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Three Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses
On the reverse is written "Nurses at Bircham Centre, then known as Hackford House, 1914-1918 War". Mabel Dewing is the nurse on the left.
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.
Army Cyclist Corps 1916
Jack Brahms, Army Cyclist Corps, 1916.
Jack, 17, the only Jewish boy in his unit, the 3rd City of London Yeomanry is in the front row on the right.
Jack travelled by train from London to Reepham to start his army career at the local headquarters…
Jack, 17, the only Jewish boy in his unit, the 3rd City of London Yeomanry is in the front row on the right.
Jack travelled by train from London to Reepham to start his army career at the local headquarters…
Soldiers on Church Plain WWI
WWI Soldiers outside Miller's shop on Church Plain Reepham. Some soldiers are at ease and some at attention.
Blanche Dewing
Blanche Dewing served as a VAD Nurse in Reepham during the First World War. She was the daughter of Martin Dewing and the family lived in Reepham Moor. The photograph on display in Reepham Archive is annotated “Blanche Dewing” & has always been…
Hackford House as a WWI Hospital
Patients & nurses in the grounds of Hackford House (now the Bircham Centre). The men are wearing the blue uniforms with white lapels of wounded soldiers. VAD Nurses can be identified with their head veils bunched back.
Reepham Red Cross Hospital Group
Photograph taken in the churchyard at the side of Reepham Town Hall in 1917 showing officers, staff and patients of the hospital including Sister Stelling, Sister Keeley, Nurse Dewing, Nurse Maddison, Nurse Mortlock and Nurse Langton. Dr. E V Perry…
Middlesex Regiment Bicycle Company WWI
Middlesex Regiment while stationed at Whitwell Hall, on parade with bicycles in Reepham Market Place.Miss K Hall loaned this image to the Reepham Society to copy & in 2020 the original postcard was donated to the Reepham Archive. On the reverse…
WWI troops in Reepham Market Place
Copy of sepia photograph in postcard format. Shops in view are Miller, H.C.Peck, & Wallace King. Marjorie Gibbs is the young woman with a camera.