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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.
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 ,…
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.
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.
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.
Hackford House as a First World War hospital
Details of the officials, Dr Perry (Medical Officer in charge), Lady Grace Barry (Commandant) ; record cards for Nan Bircham and her sister Dorothy Bruce.
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…
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.
Soldiers and vehicles outside Reepham Red Cross Hospital
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,…
Postcard sent from Reepham 11 Sept 1916 addressed to Mr. Frank Mole,…
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…