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Caring for the Wounded in WWI
Talk given by Brenda Gostling & presentation by Janet Archer using materials & resources from Reepham Archive as well as online information from the British Red Cross website. The presentation slides are shown here as the second item. The first slide…
Stanley Watson
Tribute to Stanley Watson who was born in 1894 and christened as Frederick Stanley Archibald Watson. His younger brother Clifford married Violet Gore and they became the licensees of the Sun Inn. Stanley was apprenticed to Edward Gibbs and worked for…
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.
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.
Nurses Dewing & Gibbs
Nurses Mabel Dewing & Evelyn Gibbs with unknown soldiers.
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
VAD Personnel WWI
List compiled from the Red Cross website of people involved with the running of Norfolk VAD 52 hospital based in Reepham.
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
Cavalry in the Market Place
WWI : Cavalry & crowds gathered in the Market Place.
Army Cyclists in the Rain
WWI army cyclists in the Market place with full kit, some wearing wet weather capes.
WWI Exhibition 2014
Exhibition collated by C. Peakome for the Reepham Archive commemorating the start of the First World War.
All the material came from the records held by the Bircham Centre and the Reepham Society.
Most of these are independently recorded on the…
All the material came from the records held by the Bircham Centre and the Reepham Society.
Most of these are independently recorded on the…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 ,…
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.
Army cyclists billeted in Reepham
Information about Jack Brahms, billeted in Reepham during World War I.
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.