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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.
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.
Winifred Pates VAD Nurse
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.
VAD Personnel WWI
List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.
Town Hall Ward
Reepham Town Hall set up as a hospital ward for recuperating soldiers. Dr. Perry stands at centre back.
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.
Soldiers on Church Plain WWI
WWI Soldiers outside Miller's shop on Church Plain Reepham. Some soldiers are at ease and some at attention.
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…
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…
Reepham VAD Hospital
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.
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…
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.
Red Cross Hospital
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 Dewing & Gibbs
Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.
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.
November 1914
Newspaper cutting describing the facilities provided for wounded soldiers who began arriving in Reepham to recuperate in November 1914.
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.
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…
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…
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.