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.
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…
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.
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.
The current town hall was previously called Hackford Parish Hall, and earlier was the school for Hackford & Whitwell children. It was commandeered as a hospital during WWI.
Postcard sent from Reepham 11 Sept 1916 addressed to Mr. Frank Mole,…
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…
Mrs. Ben Stimpson, Mr & Mrs Harold Rump and Mr & Mrs W.J. (Jack) Lawn loading lunches into the delivery car for the Meals on Wheels Service run by Reepham's Red Cross group.