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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.

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

Two photographs of six nurses based at the Reepham Red Cross Hospital during WWI.
Includes Nurses Gibbs & Dewing.

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…

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 ,…

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.

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.

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…

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.