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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…
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…
Army Cyclists in the Rain
WWI army cyclists in the Market place with full kit, some wearing wet weather capes.
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…
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 in the Market Place
WWI : Cavalry & crowds gathered in the Market Place.
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
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.
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…
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 ,…
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…
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.
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.
Hospital Blues
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
November 1914
Newspaper cutting describing the facilities provided for wounded soldiers who began arriving in Reepham to recuperate in November 1914.
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.