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  • Collection: WWI

Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.

Extract from a booklet issued to publicise the efforts made to the convalescence of wounded soldiers. Photograph taken at the back of the Bircham Centre

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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.

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…

Annual summaries for Reepham's hospital in WWI, dated 1916 & 1917. They detail the number of beds and names of staff, the numbers of admissions & discharges made and a report on additions made since 1914 when the hospital opened.

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…

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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…

WWI Soldiers outside Miller's shop on Church Plain Reepham. Some soldiers are at ease and some at attention.

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.

Reepham Town Hall set up as a hospital ward for recuperating soldiers. Dr. Perry stands at centre back.

List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.

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Photograph of Winifred Pates when she was serving as a Red Cross nurse at Reepham's Hospital (VAD 52) during WWI. The second image shows her 'pink card' detailing her term of work and address.

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.

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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.
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