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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…

WWI army cyclists in the Market place with full kit, some wearing wet weather capes.

WWI : Cavalry & crowds gathered in the Market Place.

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

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.

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…

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

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

Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.

Group of soldiers in their 'Hospital Blues' outside the back of Hackford House, later to become the Bircham Centre. The house included a room or rooms for recreation and for extra beds.

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

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.

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.

Newspaper cutting describing the facilities provided for wounded soldiers who began arriving in Reepham to recuperate in November 1914.